by NRB | 29 Aug 2024 | Fiction |
Jodi Picoult’s latest novel reimagines Shakespeare and shows little has changed since the sixteenth century for women playwrights. ‘I believe we can help each other,’ Emilia said. ‘You wish for everyone to know your name; I wish for no one to know mine.’ So begins...
by NRB | 24 Feb 2022 | Fiction |
JR Thorp gives breath to King Lear’s queen, and imagines another dimension to the world of Shakespeare’s play. I am the queen of two crowns, banished fifteen years, the famed and gilded woman, bad-luck baleful girl, mother of three small animals, now gone....
by NRB | 17 Nov 2015 | Non-fiction |
Here is a richly informative, scholarly and entertaining discussion of culture and myth. Our media-doused world is constantly fed stories concerning celebrities and other public figures reflecting various mythic tales and characters; stories of rags to riches,...
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