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Author Archives: Sam George
Love Song for a Vampire 5
Buffy – Once More, with Feeling – Rest in Peace…aww Spike!!
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Love Song for a Vampire 4
Two more gothtastic love songs for some dark romance today! Evanescence – Bring Me To Life 2. Shakespeare’s Sister -Stay
Love Song for a Vampire: Total Eclipse of the Heart
Once upon a time there was light in my life But now there’s only love in the dark Nothing I can say A total eclipse of the heart Bonnie Tyler’s ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’ is a love song for … Continue reading
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Tagged Bonnie Tyler, Jim steinman, Total Eclipse of the Heart, vampire
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Vampire Theatricals: An Exploration of Vampires on the Stage
Last week on ‘Reading the Vampire’ we explored ‘The Vampire Theatre: Stage Plays and Victorian Melodrama’ our workshop texts were J. R. Planché, The Vampyre, or Bride of the Isles (1820); William Thomas Moncrieff, The Spectre Bridegroom (1821); George Blink, The … Continue reading
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Tagged Blink, planche, Polidori, Tieck, vampire courses, vampire plays, vampires on stage
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Harry Potter: Magic and Herbology at the British Library
Harry Potter: A History of Magic, British Library 20 October 2017 – 28 February 2018 Libraries can be very magical places so it is fitting that the British Library are to host a stellar exhibition on Harry Potter this year. For … Continue reading
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Tagged Harry Potter, Magical Beings, Open Graves Open Minds, Research Centre
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Join Us For A Literary Weekend At Cumberland Lodge
The Literature staff at University of Hertfordshire are having a residential weekend in Cumberland Lodge again this year (the weekend of 10th-12th February). We will be arriving Friday evening and departing Sunday afternoon. This year we are sharing the programme with staff … Continue reading
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Tagged Cumberland Lodge, Dr Dinah Roe, Dr Sam George, James Kidd
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Better the Devil You Know: Part Two
I raised questions about visual images of the devil in my Better the Devil You Know post yesterday, even suggesting that he was once blue and winged rather than red and horned. Following this discussion Daisy alerted me to this wonderful … Continue reading
Better the Devil You Know: Was the Devil Once Blue and an Angel?
I have always wondered how the devil came to be depicted as red with horns and cloven feet and I once heard that one of the first visual images of the devil depicts him as a blue angel. So did … Continue reading
All the Better to See You With: Wolves and US
I found myself in Bolton in the pantomime season en route to Glasgow and was fortunate to stumble across an exhibition on ‘Animals and US’ at Bolton Central Library and Museum. This ‘family-friendly’ exhibition, purports to show how animals feature in … Continue reading
Shakespeare’s Fey Subplot in YA Gothic
When I was a child in Cumbria it used to be common for people to say you must be a changeling if you had nothing in common with your parents and there were also stories circulating that the gypsies who … Continue reading