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Paté and Parallels: Reading “The Last Chronicle of Barset”

April 14, 2018

I’ve been reading Anthony Trollope’s The Last Chronicle of Barset recently, and enjoying the experience.  [Spoiler warning: don’t read this …

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The Parson’s Handbook by Percy Dearmer: A Classic of Victorian Anglicanism

June 14, 2017

Today the Erewash Press published a book I’m very proud of: our affordable Kindle edition of The Parson’s Handbook by …

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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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A Church in Crisis: Anthony Trollope’s ‘Clergymen of the Church of England’

March 24, 2017

Last month the Erewash Press published Clergymen of the Church of England, Anthony Trollope’s collection of “clerical sketches”.  In it …

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Nutcrackers, or, “A Divertissement of Sweeeeet”

January 2, 2012

Why do we love The Nutcracker so much?  What is it that gave this ballet with a frankly rather silly …

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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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