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...work. In 2010 the Greenwich Theatre performed The Duchess of Malfi and in this collection we follow the cast and crew as they analyse the language used by John Webster, as well as exploring different ways of understanding the text and converting his words into a performance. This material forms part of The Open University course A230 Reading and studying literature... The...

...works in social settings, how monologues operate. Reading specific sections in isolation reminds you that a script has to have a structural coherence even in its smallest units...Creative writing and critical reading: 4 Writers on reading - In the next activity, you will listen to members of the Creative Writing course team at The Open University talking about their...

...work has more than borne out his theories, explains Peter Skelton...[An ammonite fossil embedded in rock.] We tend to think of Charles Darwin as a kindly-looking old man with a big beard, but let's wind the clock back to the vigorous 22-year old embarking in 1831 on the voyage of a lifetime around the world on the survey ship, HMS Beagle. Recently down from Cambridge, his...

...social structure, cultural norms and values, and climate? The discussions of Selvon’s novel in this course will offer some possible answers to this and other questions, through an emphasis on the themes of migration and memory...Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners: Leaving home - The issue of finding a ‘voice’ for the articulation of West Indian migrant experience has...