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...history... Shakespeare: A cultural icon Why has Shakespeare become such a cultural hero? Shakespeare and popular culture How Shakespeare has influenced contemporary popular culture. Shakespeare: A critical analysis How we use our personal influences and theoretical positions to inform our reading of Shakespeare. New historicism and cultural materialism A discussion...

...family and eventually inherited this estate. The biographical record suggests that Austen spent a total of some ten weeks in this house on a number of visits, during which she made use of the library. This image is based on a contemporary engraving, and the horse-drawn carriage clearly engaged in a pleasure outing that trots briskly through a Capability Brown landscape...

...history?...Growth of toleration and privatised religion A phrase that anthropologists are keen on is ‘making the familiar strange and the strange familiar’. One thread in efforts to improve understandings of religion is gaining familiarity with what people say and do. How do people emphasise what is important to them? How do they choose to do religion in different...