Durham University (DUT) • English Studies

In-depth lecture notes covering Shakespeare's tragedy, 'King Lear' - key contexts, inspirations, themes and quotes. These notes include key contexts of tragedy, and larger concepts within the play, such as psychoanalytical and existential interpretations.

In-depth lecture notes covering Shakespeare's poetry, namely 'The Rape of Lucrece' and 'Venus and Adonis' - key contexts, inspirations, themes and quotes. These notes include key contexts of poetic form, origins of the poems, and the larger themes at work within them.

In-depth lecture notes covering Shakespeare's, 'The Merchant of Venice' - key contexts, inspirations, themes and quotes. These notes elaborate on deeper conceptual themes within the play, including a scene by scene analysis and discussion, and featuring many useful quotes from the play as well as from notable critics.

In-depth lecture notes covering Shakespeare's problem play, 'Measure for Measure' - key contexts, inspirations, themes and quotes. These notes include key contexts, scene by scene analysis and quotes, as well as the larger themes towards the play points

In-depth lecture notes covering key contexts of comedy - origins of comedy, its various developments and evolutions, and the ways in which Shakespeare employs comedy in his works.

In-depth lecture notes covering the poetry of Louis Macniece - key contexts, inspirations, themes and quotes. These notes cover a range of larger concepts and contexts regarding Macniece's place within Modern Literature, notably his poetic style, voice, and key themes within a wide range of his works.

In-depth lecture notes covering the poetry of the first world war - key contexts, inspirations, themes and quotes. These notes cover a range of larger concepts and contexts regarding the poetry of Wilfred Owen, Edward Thomas and Siegfried Sassoon; the often tenuous line between satire and realism in their poetry, and the key inspirations that shaped their work.

In-depth lecture notes covering E.M. Forster's - key contexts, inspirations, themes and quotes. These notes cover a range of larger concepts and contexts regarding Forster's place within Modern Literature, notably his narrative form and voice.

In-depth lecture notes covering Katherine Mansfield's Short stories - key contexts, inspirations, themes and quotes. These notes cover a range of larger concepts and contexts regarding Mansfield's place within Modern Literature, notably her narrative form and voice.

In-depth lecture notes covering key theories of tragedy, its developments and evolutions, and the ways in which Shakespeare employs such concepts in his tragedies. These notes include Classical origins, and Shakespeare's tragedies: Macbeth, King Lear and Hamlet.