This study considers the importance of clowning in Shakespeare’s drama. In order to establish the foundations of my study I analyse the clown roles in three anonymous plays: Dericke in The Famous Victories of Henry the ...

The trickster is a powerful figure of transformation in many societies, including Native Canadian and Māori cultures. As a demi-god, the trickster has the ability to assume the shape of a variety of animals and humans, but ...

This thesis examines how two authors of fantasy fiction attempt to re-imagine Paradise Lost in their works and analyses how they each deal with Miltonic influence in a markedly different way. The two works that are the ...

The detrimental consequence that an inadequate, unloving and abusive childhood can have on the psychological development and psychic stability of a child or teenager is a prevalent theme in Duff’s writing. All of Duff’s ...

This thesis provides a new way of reading the Romantic inheritance and spiritual themes in Mary Oliver’s poetry, through a framework that accommodates her paradoxical poetical and spiritual subjectivities. Existing scholarship ...

The bulk of this thesis takes the form of an annotated edition of Geoffrey Hill's Speech! Speech! (2000), a long poem comprised of 120 twelve-line stanzas, and renowned for its density of reference and allusion, rebarbative ...

Computer technology has been introduced into the field of language education for more than three decades. However, how individual learners interact with language learning multimedia programmes in different ways is not yet ...