SEMS TALKS: 20 AUGUST, 2026

Shakespeare’s Objects: Exploring the Off-Stage Lives of Early Modern Properties By Prof. Catherine Richardson, University of East Anglia Keep an eye on our EVENTS calendar for more online talks in the series. Check details of the talk on the event…

TO BE OR NOT TO BE

John Donne shroud portrait, miniature portrait, and "Biathanatos" title page image photo collage

John Donne’s Biathanatos Doyeeta Majumdar “nothing that we call sin is so against nature, but that it may be sometimes agreeable to nature” Biathanatos, I.i.7 When Hamlet muses upon “a consummation devoutly to be wished” (III.i), suicide was considered a…

LAURA WRITES BACK

Extending the line from courtly love through the Tuscan dolce stil nuovo, Petrarchism redefined the position of women in European love poetry. Yet the more things changed, the more they remained the same. Petrarchism gave women a new inviolate space