Plagues functioned as a setup for an even more crucial theme in ancient myth: a leader’s intelligence....
Literature
Swift was a heavily politically involved and prolific writer. Introduction Jonathan Swift (November 30, 1667 – October...
America’s first literary star, Anne Bradstreet, who was a pioneer in more ways than one. Anne came...
The surprising history behind the world’s most famous collection of folk tales. Two hundred years ago, two...
What the history of the First Folio tells us about our greatest playwright. Hidden away in a...
Roughly 1 in 5 of all comic books were romance comics, as publishers scrambled to appease readers’...
How Parker’s determination to speak her mind — even when it angered men in positions of power...
Moments of contact, when the properties of one rub off on the other. By Priyanka Anne Jacob...
The archaic Greek poet is conceived of as the wellspring from which the later Western artistic tradition...
Exploring the obscuring nature of his legend and the role that women played in his life and...
Looking at of the Gentleman’s Magazine, printers of county histories, collectors of manuscripts, and founder members of...
The library-era, as we may call it, began with the publication of the Rule of S. Benedict...
He was the author of the Shāhnāmeh (Epic of Kings), the national epic of the Persian-speaking world....
The Wasp meted out ridicule to a myriad of caricatured subjects, from senators and presidents to Chinese...
Examining 18th-century satirist Richard Brinsley Sheridan and his most famous play, The School for Scandal. Introduction Perhaps...
The treatment of the military subject in Shakespeare’s Roman plays complicates early modern cultural understandings of the...
A number of highly educated citizens could speak and read both Greek and Latin. Introduction The Roman...
Like its American counterpart, the burgeoning British underground scene held comics in high esteem. By John Harris...
This is probably the best expression of of Pizan’s views of contemporary medieval women. The Woman Question...
For the source of his story, Arthur Miller looked back to the Salem witch trials of 1692....
Analyzing the importance of Lagerlöf’s oeuvre and the complex depths beneath her seemingly simple tales and public...
In terms of its staging of sovereignty, passivity distinguished the Scottish king from the English tyrant. Introduction...
Shakespeare drew on earlier depictions of Richard III and other ruthless rulers in order to create his...
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” Early Life...
An analysis of the Aeneid and the extent to which it can be taken as a commentary...
Examining the main flaws in the court system in the days of Homer. By Dr. Alexandr LoginovProfessor...
The myth, in time, became the reality. Introduction Originality in literary compositions in the ancient world did...
Exploring this literature looked like, its subject matter, and the ways in which it was produced. Introduction...
In the manuscript, each of Khufu’s sons speaks in turn, telling their own tale for their father’s...
From gift-bestowing sparrows and peach-born heroes to goblin spiders and dancing phantom cats — in a series...