Dynamic Fluctuations of Acting and Spectating in Hamlet and A Midsummer Night's Dream
By Alexandra Robinson, Polyphony Volume 5, Issue 1. First published on 7th of March 2023. Mutability, defined as a ‘disposition to...
Trees as Characters: Challenging the Anthropocene through Non-Human Drama in Powers' The Overstory
By Luke Bryan, Polyphony Volume 4, Issue 2. First published on 24th of June 2022. In The Future of Environmental Criticism, Lawrence...
The Red Pill in the Green Knight: The Games Outside the Identity Matrix
By Carys Richards, Polyphony Volume 3, Issue 3. First published 28th July 2021. In her seminal 1994 article on Sir Gawain and the Green...
Modernist Men and Women: Constructions of Gender in the poetry of T.S. Eliot and H.D.
by Amy Hagan Polyphony, Volume 2, Issue 2 First published April 2020, Manchester Abstract This essay analyses the poems of H.D. and T.S....
The Ruin (ii): Translation and Commentary
by Seren Morgan-Roberts Polyphony, Volume 2, Issue 2 First published April 2020, Manchester During this commentary, I will discuss my...
Do we truly need a "true sex"? A Foucauldian analysis of Herculine Barbin
by Amber Barry Polyphony, Volume 2, Issue 2 First published April 2020, Manchester Abstract This essay uses Foucauldian ideas and medical...
The Ruin (i) - Translation and Commentary
by Sally Hamriding Polyphony, Volume 2, Issue 2 First published April 2020, Manchester The Anglo-Saxon elegy The Ruin is often cited as a...
Papa John's Elegy
by Lauryn Berry Polyphony, Volume 2, Issue 2 First published April 2020, Manchester I may be tipsy as I write this but I think even a...
The Fragmentation of Sappho: Materiality and Translation
by Kitty Doherty Polyphony, Volume 2, Issue 2 First published April 2020, Manchester Abstract This essay focuses upon the literary figure...
The Wanderer: A Translation with Commentary
by Thomas Hunnisett Polyphony, Volume 2, Issue 2 First published April 2020, Manchester The Wanderer (1-50) “Always the lonely one...
Manchester in Haikus
by Ellie Ormerod Polyphony, Volume 2, Issue 2 First published April 2020, Manchester A choked skyline; the necks of towers, gripped by...
‘“What is Cunt?” she said’: Obscenity, Concealment and Representations of the Vulva in D.H Lawrence
by Isabella Rooke-Ley Polyphony, Volume 2, Issue 1 First published April 2020, Manchester Abstract This essay asks: what is cunt— or,...
Emotional legitimacy and Yeats's 'An Irish Airman Foresees His Death'
by Hana Jafar Polyphony, Volume 2, Issue 1 First published April 2020, Manchester Abstract As a close reading of ‘An Irish Airman...