Natasa drakulic biography of william shakespeare
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Contents &#; Index at The battles won, lost and currently raging
The spring issue of Index magazine is special. We are celebrating 50 years of history and to such a milestone we&#;ve decided to look back at the thorny path that brought us here.
Editors from our fem decades of life have accepted our invitation to think over their time at Index, while we&#;ve chosen pieces from important moments that truly tell our diverse and abundant trajectory.
Susan McKay has revisited an article about the contentious role of the BBC in Northern Ireland published in our first issue, and compares it to today&#;s reality.
Martin Bright does a brilliant job and reveals fascinating details on Index origin story, which you shouldn&#;t miss.
Index at 50, bygd Jemimah Steinfeld: How Index has lived up to Stephen Spender’s founding manifesto over five decades of the magazine.
The Index: Free expression around the world today: the inspiring voices, the people who have been imprisoned and the trends, l
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I read Vera Brittain&#;s Testament of Friendship for the Club hosted by Kaggy&#;s Bookish Ramblings and Simon from Stuck in a Book.
Books about female friendship are ubiquitous these days, but in Vera Brittain&#;s day () it was all about noble male friendship (a.k.a. mateship here in Australia) while close hona friendships were sometimes the subject of speculation and gossip. Just as Brittain&#;s Testament of Youth () was the first to step outside the male experience of WW1, so too was her story of her något privat eller personligt but platonic friendship with a woman who meant the world to her. Testament of Friendship is poignant reading because Winifred Holtby () died aged only 37 from Bright&#;s Disease, (now known as nephritis, i.e. kidney disease.)
Despite its tragic conclusion, the book is a lively konto of two clever young women determined to do something useful in the world. They met at Oxford, where in the absence of men mostly at the front, they enjoyed comparative respec
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I don’t read a lot of plays. I never have really, aside from a few pretentious phases and the required readings for school, but I do generally enjoy the experience when I pick one up. A good play is powerful, entertaining and, when read, short – always a winning combination. But the trouble is picking the good ones, isn’t it? As usual. Well, Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) by Ann-Marie Macdonald, written in before she turned her hand to novel-writing, is definitely a good ‘un.
Queen’s University Assistant Professor Constance Ledbelly (such a Shakespearian name!) is, when not ghost-writing academic papers for her boss, working to decode a manuscript that she believes was the inspiration for Shakespeare’s ‘Othello’ and ‘Romeo and Juliet’. And in their original forms, in the manuscript, she is convinced that both plays began as comedies, that there was a Fool there to guide the characters to happy rather than tragic ends:
What if a Fool were to enter the worlds of