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Briefs and Abstract Chronicles: C.J. Sansom’s Heartstone

May 25, 2013

“SHARDLAKE GOES TO WAR” declares the cover of Heartstone, the new C.J. Sansom novel.  Thankfully, he doesn’t.  I suspect C.J. …

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So Pure and Rational An Attachment: Women, Sex and the Duchess of Malfi on the Victorian Stage

May 19, 2013

The new issue of Victorian Network just came out, and it includes an article I wrote on the performance of …

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Sherlock: The Reichenbach Fall

May 19, 2013

Doing the Reichenbach Falls as part of the Sherlock series?  I love it.  The idea is so self-indulgent, such a …

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Sherlock: The Hounds of Baskerville

May 19, 2013

So, Sherlock takes on one of the classics.  The Hound of the Baskervilles becomes The Hounds of Baskerville.  Say what …

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The Big Lad in The Checks: One Man Two Guvnors by Richard Bean, starring James Corden

May 17, 2013

Richard Bean (author of The English Game) and James Corden (co-writer and star of Gavin and Stacey), two guys with …

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Wan Spectre: The Woman in White on stage

May 17, 2013

First of all, Wilkie Collins’ Victorian sensation novel The Woman in White is not the same as Susan Hill’s ghost …

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Another Boleyn Girl: Anne Boleyn by Howard Brenton, at Shakespeare’s Globe

May 16, 2013

Anne Boleyn’s had a lively time of it since her death.  At the time of her execution she was rumoured …

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The Most Modern Prometheus: Nick Dear’s Frankenstein, Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Johnny Lee Miller

May 16, 2013

Nick Dear’s new adaptation of Frankenstein for the National Theatre was an extremely successful play before the show even opened.  …

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Flourishing in Midwinter: The Holly and the Ivy by Wynyard Browne

May 15, 2013

“Middle Ground Theatre Company”.  The programme claims it’s a geographical description, but that there is a gift to a reviewer.  …

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Tittering To The Converted: The Reluctant Debutante

May 14, 2013

After last year’s successful revival of Lloyd George Knew My Father, the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre are now staging another William …

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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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