By Sarah Nim (Fall 2022) Geoffrey Chaucer was born somewhere in the early 1340s in the Middle Ages. Little of his life outside of his work with the Crown is known. He entered the world of aristocracy by marrying the daughter of a knight and is considered one of the […]
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By Faith Field (Fall 2022) John Milton is regarded as one of the greatest English poets for his works like Paradise Lost or Samson Agonistes. He has cultivated a community that not only loves his works but is actually more interested in Milton as the hidden subject: it’s not uncommon […]
By Samara Addo (Fall 2022) John Milton was an English poet and intellectual born on December 9, 1608. He is considered the most significant English author after William Shakespeare. His most notable work is Paradise Lost which is considered as the greatest epic poem in English. This along with Paradise […]
By Sophia Lindstrom (Fall 2022) Along with comedy and tragedy, history is one of the three main genres of western theater defined by its dramatized and often biased retelling of historical events. Henry V, which is part of a larger collection of William Shakespeare’s historiographies, follows the titular character as […]
By Scott Williams (Fall 2022) The book of Judith was written originally in Hebrew. The poem was adapted from the Book of Judith in the “late 10th-century[by an] Anglo-Saxon abbot and writer” (Greenblat 109). The Hebrews in the poem are the good guys and the ones victorious against the Assyrians. […]
By Paulina Allen (Fall 2022) The Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward, and Unconstant Women by Joseph Swetnam is a misogynistic pamphlet published in 1615. The Arraignment of Women details jokes, ramblings, and biblical arguments against the value of women. Its publication took place during the pamphlet wars of the 17th […]
By Nick Dlugos (Fall 2022) The idea of a perfect hero, especially in medieval literature, often manifests itself in the ideas of knights like Sir Lancelot or many of the other knights of the roundtable. However, one knight of the roundtable, Sir Gawain, isn’t the same as his peers. When […]
By Mia Tewes (Fall 2022) There is a strong presence of religion in John Milton’s Samson Agonistes. There are both direct and indirect character comparisons in Milton’s writing that highlight the important role religion plays. This includes the positive and negative sides, like hope and punishment. Samson Agonistes tells a […]
By Melissa DeFabritiis (Fall 2022) The fourteenth-century poem The King of Tars by an unknown author tells the tale of religious and racial tensions between the white Christians of Tars and the Black Muslims of Damascus, and details the white Tarsians expressing feelings of superiority over their Black Damascan counterparts. […]
By Lily Daher (Fall 2022) The play Henry V is a historical play that was written by William Shakespeare at the beginning of the seventeenth century. William Shakespeare is one of the most notable authors in Western Literature with his works ranging from plays to poems. He began writing at […]