How to ace any Shakespeare extract question

Among the various question types students encounter on English Literature exams, the extract-based response is probably the most popular.

What is ‘freedom’? Reading Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath to find out

Poets are a hypersensitive bunch.

In this post, let’s take a break from poetry and literature to look at something slightly different – rhetoric and persuasion.

For many people, colonialism is hard to talk about.

This is a particularly uncomfortable time to be re-reading The Merchant of Venice.

In my post on Macbeth, I propose that one of the reasons for our long-standing fascination with Macbeth the character is his outsized boldness.