Essays at Troynovant:
mining the prismatic
veins of Knowledge;
listed by Title, A-B
  

These essays range in length from squibs to complex treatments; and in style from humorous to polemical, from expository to analytical. The title or first paragraph should tell you what you're looking at, if not necessarily what you're in for.

Some entries here we label review-essays. This distinguishes contributions more substantial than regular reviews, still focusing on particular works; but, essay-like, perhaps longer, more detailed, more fully backgrounded, more analytical. As a practical matter this means basically that the contribution is given an entry in the appropriate Essays index as well as the Books or Films etc index(es).

Essays or review-essays are more likely to include significant plot spoilers than our regular reviews. If so, we assume you've read the books or seen the films discussed therein, but we do try to indicate that up front.
  

Here at Troynovant — renewed Troy-Town — I suspect this adage describes the compulsion to creative writing:

    In this town, he thought,
    The Love That Dares Not Speak Its Name
    almost never shuts up.

Armistead Maupin
Tales of the City  (1978)
  

[ alphabetical by topic; topical persons (if any); essayist ]

  
[King Lear's palace at Troynovant.]

Gloucester:

Give me the letter, sir.

Edmund:

I shall offend, either to detain or give it. The contents, as in part I understand them, are to blame.

Gloucester:

Let's see, let's see.

Edmund:

I hope, for my brother's justification, he wrote this but as an essay or taste of my virtue.

William Shakespeare
King Lear, 1.2.39-44