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

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.

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

  
[Milan.]

Silvia:

Perchance you think too much of so much pains?

Valentine:

No, madam; so it stead you, I will write —
Please you command — a thousand times as much.
And yet ...

Silvia:

A pretty period. Well, I guess the sequel.
And yet I will not name it. And yet I care not.
And yet take this again.
          [She offers him the letter]
                                    And yet I thank you,
Meaning henceforth to trouble you no more.

Speed [aside]:

And yet you will; and yet another yet.

William Shakespeare
The Two Gentlemen of Verona, 2.1.99-107