Welcome to "A Thousand Words," a column at The English and Drama Review dedicated to featuring themed artworks at the end of each month to explore the relationships between literature and art. We encourage the display of all art forms—painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, ceramics, design, short film, needlework, and so forth—at this virtual exhibit of … Continue reading A Thousand Words: Feast
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A Thousand Words: Terribilità
Welcome to "A Thousand Words," a column at The English and Drama Review dedicated to featuring themed artworks at the end of each month to explore the relationships between literature and art. We encourage the display of all art forms—painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, ceramics, design, short film, needlework, and so forth—at this virtual exhibit of … Continue reading A Thousand Words: Terribilità
Seeing Sight: The Anti-Ocularcentric bakkhai
By Yuge Ma Dionysos, the god who induces one to forget one’s self, drives the central action in Euripides’s Bakkhai. Bakkhai is a play about a divinity’s revenge on mortal human beings. The play begins with Dionysos arriving at Thebes, his birthplace, in the disguise of a mortal foreigner, to take his revenge on the Theban … Continue reading Seeing Sight: The Anti-Ocularcentric bakkhai
A Thousand Words: Academicism
Welcome to "A Thousand Words," a column at The English and Drama Review dedicated to featuring themed artworks at the end of each month to explore the relationships between literature and art. We encourage the display of all art forms—painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, ceramics, design, short film, needlework, and so forth—at this virtual exhibit of … Continue reading A Thousand Words: Academicism
The Arbitrariness of “20/20” Vision
by Cristina Coppa According to Ferdinand de Saussure’s vision on semiotics—“the science of communication studied through the interpretation of signs and symbols as they operate in various fields” —in his Course in General Linguistics, language is a system of signs that express ideas (Saussure 850). The elements of language, as part of this semiotic system, … Continue reading The Arbitrariness of “20/20” Vision
A Thousand Words: Whimsy
Welcome to "A Thousand Words," a column at The English and Drama Review dedicated to featuring themed artworks at the end of each month to explore the relationships between literature and art. We encourage the display of all art forms—painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, ceramics, design, short film, needlework, and so forth—at this virtual exhibit of … Continue reading A Thousand Words: Whimsy
The Sacrificial Female
by Tiana Urey In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Gertrude and Ophelia function as political and social stabilizers to the male characters, and their treatment speaks to the kingdom’s declining health. Their shared literary role demonstrates not that these women are passive, but that female maltreatment is a barometer of instability as the men sink deeper into political … Continue reading The Sacrificial Female
Play On: Songs of Revelry
Welcome to "Play On", a monthly column that explores connections between literature and music by presenting themed playlists at the beginning of each month. Music recommendations are made by members of the Review's editing team and curated by our Chief Editor, Con Xie. Music is essential to every celebration. Through phrases and modulations, it establishes … Continue reading Play On: Songs of Revelry
The Acquisition
by CJ Barnes
The True Queens of Ivanhoe – Examination of power and agency through Rowena and Rebecca in Ivanhoe
by Maya Mehrara
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