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Tag Archives: Victorians

The Luxury of Surprise: Gender and Online Abuse

February 27, 2013

Content note: The following post mentions misogynistic threats of violence.   The other day a fellow academic threatened to smash …

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Classic Detective Fiction: I’m Asking For A Friend

August 29, 2012

A question for all mystery and detective fiction readers: “Where does one go, in terms of classic murder mystery, after having …

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Six Sorts of Sherlock, or, “Facets of Holmes”

March 10, 2012

Sherlock Holmes: everybody seems to have an angle on him.  I’ve put together six ways of looking at the most …

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Theatre’s Cutting Edge, or, “The Naughty Nineties”

February 29, 2012

The King’s Speech five times a year!  No, it’s not a leaked BBC plan for the jubilee year coverage, nor …

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Theatre and Society, or, “Alan Ayckbourn Likes A Pint”

February 11, 2012

Alan Ayckbourn is a very social playwright.  I don’t mean he’s great to have a drink with – although 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.

Recent Posts

  • Guns in the Vicarage: On the Textual Criticism of Detective Fiction
  • Dangerous Dolphins and Old-fashioned Fish: A Pair of Ngaio Marsh Detective Covers
  • Having Faith in Fantasy: A lecture on the theologies of Narnia and Middle Earth
  • The tenses of the verbs: A sermon on the Visit of the Virgin Mary to Elizabeth
  • Midcentury Jacobeans: Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, P.D. James and “The Duchess of Malfi”

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  • Shakespeare Misquoted, Misunderstood and Misapplied
  • Misunderstood Shakespeare: Yorrick, We Hardly Knew Thee
  • Buxom Wenches: Power and Sexiness
  • Where the still world sleeps on its cruxes: the text of the sonnet in Dorothy L. Sayers' Gaudy Night
  • Eleven Ways of Looking At A Sexist Apple Tree

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