History & The Arts
Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It
...centre of political life. * Deus ex machina Literally, in Greek and Roman drama, ‘god from a [stage] machine’, a god brought in at the last minute to resolve a challenging plot situation. The phrase has come to be used metaphorically to mean the use of anything artificial or improbable to resolve the plot of a story. * Enjambment In poetry, the running over of a...