Literature
GilgameshThe original Sumerian super-hero.
The Ramayana
The great Hindu love story.
The Arabian Nights Entertainments
Or "The Thousand and One Nights" - my notes.
The Beggar's Opera
The greatest classic of the English musical theatre.
Great Ancients
Who were the ancient Greek and Roman artists and scientists that authors of renaissance classics continuously harp on about? My glossary.
Dante's Inferno
Fancy a guided tour of Hell?
Joyce's Ulysses
The greatest classic of the Twentieth Century?
Music
HMS PinaforeMy program notes on the operetta.
The Sound of Music
How it was first created by Rodgers and Hammerstein.
The Mikado
Japanese influences behind The Mikado.
Dorset
Literary Dorset -Dorset was home to Thomas Hardy, William Barnes, T.E. Lawrence, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, J.R.R. Tolkien, the Powys brothers, Jane Austen, John Fowles, Sylvia Townsend-Warner and it was the birthplace of Thomas Love Peacock and John Le Carré. The county also provided the backdrop for John Meade Falkner's classic novel "Moonfleet".
There is now a page devoted to the real locations of Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
Historic Dorset
Castles and follies - Dorset abounds in these.
Geological Dorset
Beautiful Dorset
Thornlow School - Information about my research project on the history of Thornlow School in Weymouth.
Historical Sites
Crac des ChevaliersTake a virtual tour round the mighty Crusader "castle of the knights" in Syria.
Troy
And how about a virtual tour of the ancient city of Troy.
Murasaki's Sepulcher
Lady Murasaki Shikibu's grave in Kyoto.
Rajomon
The great gate of the ancient city of Kyoto.
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