From post-truth politics to “no-platforming” on university campuses, the English language has been both a potent weapon and a crucial battlefield for our di

George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of

In this book, John O’Regan examines the role of political economy in the worldwide spread of English and traces the origins and development of the dominance o

From post-truth politics to “no-platforming” on university campuses, the English language has been both a potent weapon and a crucial battlefield for our di

Presents a study of political theater in the English Renaissance, discussing the differences between a public playhouse and a private, or court theater, and loo