Midcentury Jacobeans: Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, P.D. James and “The Duchess of Malfi”
I’ve had some cheering news recently: a scholarly article of mine is going to be published in the journal ELH …
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‘so pure and rational an attachment’: Isabella Glyn’s Performance of Social and Sexual Risk at Sadler’s Wells
A couple of years ago I published this article in the journal Victorian Network, as part of my research into …
So Pure and Rational An Attachment: Women, Sex and the Duchess of Malfi on the Victorian Stage
The new issue of Victorian Network just came out, and it includes an article I wrote on the performance of …
A Duchess of Decorum: Eve Best and Jamie Lloyd’s Duchess of Malfi at the Old Vic
In the 90s Susan Bennett described The Duchess of Malfi as the play of choice for theatres wishing to put …
Malvolio and Georgie: Twelfth Night Meets Mapp and Lucia
Rewatching Trevor Nunn’s remarkable film of Twelfth Night, I noticed a detail I’d never seen before. Well, two details, to …
WASP Actually: Juliet and the Duchess of Malfi
In ‘Shakespeare: Rough or Smooth”, Maurice Charney makes a throwaway comment about the unusually large number of students taking Shakespeare …
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