Ionesco's Rhinoceros allegorizes

Theatre of the absurd

Ionesco's The Bald Soprano shows everyday speech as meaningless automated noise

Metamorphoses

Ovid's Metamorphoses chronicles over 250 myths of transformation

Othello is about epistemology as much as jealousy

Iago's deceit shapes Othello's beliefs, questioning reality and knowledge

Rimbaud's 'systematic derangement of all the senses' sought

Rimbaud's 'systematic derangement of all the senses' sought a new poetic language through extremity

Spivak's 'Can the Subaltern Speak?' asks

Spivak's 'Can the Subaltern Speak?' questions if marginalized voices can be heard within dominant discourse

Guernica (Picasso)

Guernica depicts the bombing of Guernica, Spain