‘Recent critical theory has placed undue emphasis on the limitlessness of interpretation … this is a view I do not agree with, not simply because texts in fact are in the world but also because as texts they place themselves … and indeed are themselves, by soliciting the world’s attention. Moreover, their manner of doing this is to place restraints upon what can be done with them interpretively.’ (Edward Said, The World, the Text, and the Critic, pp. 39–40) How do the texts you have read solicit your attention and what restraints do they place on their own interpretation? Texts are: David Hare: Stuff Happens & Jeanette Winterson Oranges are not the only Fruit.