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 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 […]
By Juliana Hall (Fall 2022) While men in power, both fictional and real, are consistently praised for their actions and excused for their wrongdoings, women in power are criticized or portrayed as weak and unworthy of titles. In The Blazing World, however, the relationship between the two female characters and […]
By Julia Dantzler (Fall 2022) In the 12th century, Marie de France wrote the lai “Bisclavret,” which is the story of a man who changes forms and disappears for days at a time from his wife and civilized life to be a wolf in the forest. This lai is one […]
By Jeremy Whitman-Kinghorn (Fall 2022) Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is a work that offers an unrivaled glimpse into medieval life in 14th-century England. Written in Middle English in the 14th century, Chaucer wrote what was clearly from his perspective a quite accurate dissection of the social structure of the […]
By Emily Levesque (Fall 2022) The story of Oroonoko; Or, The Royal Slave by Aphra Behn is told from the perspective of a female character, making the text important in a larger context. There is controversy regarding whether or not this individual is Aphra Behn herself, who uses her knowledge […]