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About William Fitzgerald

William Fitzgerald is professor of classics at Kings College London. His most recent books are Slavery and the Roman Literary Imagination (2000) and Martial: The World of Epigram (2007), and he is now working on How to Read a Latin Poem, if you Can't Read Latin (Yet).

Articles by William Fitzgerald

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Monday 14th November

Mucking out the bullshit: Kubrick, Spartacus and Full Metal Jacket

William Fitzgerald, 14 November 2011
Spartacus, a monstrosity of sentimentality, only survives in annual repeats on daytime television; Full Metal Jacket is regarded as one of the great 'Nam movies. Strong thematic and structural parallels, however, bind the two films together, and the nauseous incontinence of the earlier film can help us understand the bleak spareness of the later one.
Sunday 1st February

Carl Orff, beyond Nazi music

William Fitzgerald, 1 February 2009
Lust, latin, schoolwork, puppet-shows and Monteverdi; Tony Palmer's new film tells of a complicated, compromised legacy.
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