Cork City, Éire, may soon become home to the world’s smallest public monument: a statue commemorating the mosquito — or perhaps midge — alleged to have bitten Oliver Cromwell during his brutal Irish ...

Man created God, then God created Man, as the glib saying guaranteed to offend both fundamentalist atheists and dyed in the wool theists, goes. Or perhaps it’s the other way round. In either case, ...

The first time I saw Jane Austen described as a ‘prose Shakespeare’ it struck me as absolute perfection. It was George Henry Lewes, in the 19th century, that gave her the epithet, although he ...

Please note that the historical figure King Richard III will be referred to as ‘Richard III’, and Shakespeare’s character Gloucester/King Richard as ‘Richard’ throughout these articles. “We (as an ...

One of Shakespeare’s most profound speeches doesn’t actually belong to one of his plays. The Strangers’ Case is the only extensive example of Shakespeare’s handwriting that survives, and it is from a ...

Shylock has been residing in a corner of my mind for about four years now, ever since I first studied The Merchant of Venice. I’d like to say ‘quietly’, but he’s not always quiet. I think about him ...

Jack Thorne always allows his empathy to shine through in his writing. Over the last few years, the UK government have been doggedly dragging the country back into a Dickensian class-divide; attacking ...

When the remains of Richard III were formally identified in 2012, it led to new discoveries about his life and times. Among the results of various investigations, it was determined that in the last ...

When Richard III decided that his coronation would take place only ten days after the day he had taken possession of the realm by a secular enthronement in Westminster Hall, he would have known that ...

To modern eyes, the coronation of a British monarch is one of spectacle. The processions through the streets of London, the gold state coach, the backdrop of Westminster Abbey, the jewels, the ...

Call for submissions. The 2019-2020 bushfire season has seen unprecedented destruction, as well as an unprecedented national and worldwide response. To contribute to that effort, Maximum Felix Media ...

The Gyptians of Philip Pullman’s ‘Brytain’ and the wider world were introduced in the first episode of His Dark Materials by way of a newly-seen coming-of-age ceremony. The community came together to ...