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Sophocles and Inspector Morse

December 12, 2017

I’m reading a lot of detective fiction at the moment.  Partly for fun, and partly because I’m working on a …

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Bewick Gaudy: Scene Three, Part II and Scene Four

January 7, 2014

Here’s the final section of Bewick Gaudy, which first appeared at the O’Reilly Theatre ten years ago. (The other sections …

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Bewick Gaudy: Scene Three, Part I

January 6, 2014

Here’s the fourth chunk of Bewick Gaudy, my play about a reunion at an Oxford college.  The other scenes can …

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Bewick Gaudy: Scene Two, Part II

January 3, 2014

Here’s the third section of Bewick Gaudy, a play I wrote about coming back to Oxford whilst I was still …

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Bewick Gaudy: Scene Two, Part I

January 2, 2014

This is the second in the series of posts containing my play Bewick Gaudy, which was first performed ten years …

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Bewick Gaudy: Intro and Scene One

January 1, 2014

Bewick Gaudy won the Cameron Mackintosh Award for New Writing, and was performed at the O’Reilly Theatre, directed by David …

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Reading Things Into It, or, “Quads and Quidditch”

January 8, 2012

This is the second part of my post on Harry Potter and university – the previous part can be read …

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Potter Off, or, “We Could Be Wizards”

January 7, 2012

I’m not really a big fan of Harry Potter, so this won’t be a polemic about the books.  (Not this …

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My latest book investigates a literary urban legend about Shakespeare and the King James Bible.

Words of Power: Reading Shakespeare and the Bible - my book on the history and use of these two texts.

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