Dave McGrath When did you complete the HSC/IB and where? Class of 2009 (God, where’s the time gone?) at Sydney Grammar School In which field are you currently working? Gambling – Product Performance Analyst at Paddy Power Betfair How do you now reflect on your final year at school? Have you changed direction since then?[…]
Peter Donnelly When did you complete the HSC / IB and where? I completed my HSC in 2010 at Sydney Grammar School. My final mark was 91.7% What field are you currently working in? I work in Human Resources within the NGO/charitable Sector at Oxfam in Oxford U.K. How do you now reflect on your[…]
In our last post on Richard III we covered the basic context of the play up to the moment it began. In this post we’re mainly going to be concerned with the events of the play, the events of history, and how discrepancies between the two are evidence of the deliberate manipulation of history by[…]
Poetry, like fine wine, classical music, and art, is generally seen as an absolute quantity. Most people, scarred by their experience of it in school, are convinced that it is either the exclusive property of merlot sipping aesthetes, or that it’s some sort of elaborate con and that there aren’t any real rules to what[…]
I’m often confronted with students who have absolutely no idea why the collected works of a seventeenth century showman are inflicted upon them with such relentless regularity. The thing is, I generally meet these kids when they’re at the point of having suffered through nearly half a decade of this strange phenomenon and, for some[…]
Richard III is probably my favourite Shakespeare play, but it’s also definitely one of the most difficult to understand. The main reason for this is assumed knowledge – the play cuts in abruptly in the final days of Edward IV, playing out the closing stages of a drama which Shakespeare could confidently assume his audience[…]
