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Spectral Authority: the Presence of Shakespeare in Biblical Scholarship

July 10, 2020

The journal Christianity and Literature has just published an article by me, entitled “Spectral Authority: The Presence of Shakespeare in …

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Midcentury Jacobeans: Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, P.D. James and “The Duchess of Malfi”

August 16, 2019

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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Shakespeare and the King James Bible – Some Tentative Conclusions

March 21, 2019

A couple of years ago I published Shakespeare and the Psalms Mystery, a book which examines (and debunks) the legend …

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“Three Ordinary, Normal Old Women”: Agatha Christie’s Uses of Shakespeare

December 19, 2018

Yesterday the journal Shakespeare published an article entitled “Three Ordinary, Normal Old Women: Agatha Christie’s Uses of Shakespeare”.  The reason …

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Shakespeare and the Psalms Mystery: Did Shakespeare Help Write the King James Bible?

August 30, 2017

Today sees the launch of my new book, Shakespeare and the Psalms Mystery.  Despite the sound of the title, I …

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Post-War Chancers and Furious Housewives: Adaptation and The Merry Wives of Windsor

July 26, 2017

As I mentioned a few weeks ago, one of my research projects at the moment is an investigation of the …

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Literary Allusion in Harry Potter by Dr. Beatrice Groves: A Review

July 4, 2017

I have been looking forward to the publication of Beatrice Groves’ Literary Allusion in Harry Potter for some time, and …

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“in men, in places, in homely customs”: The Victorian Clergman E. I. Fripp and his Pastoral Genesis

July 1, 2017

One of the research projects I’m working on at the moment is an investigation of the work of Edgar Innes …

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“rising nightly among the metropolitans”: The Fun and Fascination of Victorian Theatre Adverts

April 29, 2017

This week I’ve been redrafting a chapter from my book about Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi, and remembering why Victorian …

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Words of Power – Reviews and Ruminations

December 8, 2016

Words of Power, my book on Shakespeare and the Bible, has been out for about eight months now.  After the …

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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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