This text investigates Samuel Beckett’s novel Murphy as a potentially pacifist text. Published in 1938, Murphy is an avant-garde novel whose eponymous protagonist, an unemployed Irishman in London, finds pleasure only…
This text explores the personal experiences of its author, Haim Gordon, as an educator, recalling an instance where he was called to teach Jewish and Arab students in Israel in a project called, “Education for Peace on…
The text begins by relating the concept of motherhood to war, and, through references to the Iliad, establishes that there motherhood and militarism are inextricably linked with regards to questions of a mother’s…
The text focuses on Thomas Middleton’s Women Beware Women and studies it as a peace play with an astute awareness of the context of its creation, namely King James I’s comparatively-pacifistic approach to foreign…
This article provides an interesting analysis of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, contextualising the play as a commentary of political negotiations towards peace that were happening at the time. However, the author analyses…
This article explores the connection between peace and fertility in Aristophanes’ plays, further contributing to the research on the connection between representations of nature and visualisations of peace. Dillon also…