Directory of Research and Expertise

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Research Summary and Profile

Research interests:

Early Modern, English Literature

Regions:

England, Europe, United Kingdom

Summary of research interests and expertise:

Primary Interest: Early Modern English Literature
Secondary Interest: History

Project summary relevant to Fellowship:

Member of:
The British Milton Seminar
British Shakespeare Seminar
London Shakespeare Seminar
World Shakespeare Congress
Milton Society of America
Renaissance Society of America
British Society of Eighteenth Century Studies

President of University of London Extra Mural Literature Association

Advisory editor, The Works of Aphra Behn

Organising Committee Member of International Milton Seminar

Consultant on manuscripts submitted to Wiley-Blackwell, Cambridge University Press, University of Toronto Press, Manchester University Press,Oxford University Press,Restoration, The European Legacy, Shakespeare Quarterly, Milton Quarterly, other academic journals

Contributor to Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Publication Details

Related publications/articles:

Date	Details
01-Jan-2022	'Power Unbounded and a Will Confined: Waller's Politics' Chapters in Edmund Waller (1606-1687): New Perspectives, ed. Philip Major (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2022), pp. 19-46
01-Jan-2022	Review of 'Thomas Heywood and the Classical Tradition' Review Cahiers Elisabethains, 107 (April 2022), 151-5.
01-Jan-2022	Donne, Milton, and the Understanders Chapters in Milton in Strasbourg, ed. Christophe Tournu, John K. Hale, and Neil Forsyth (Bruxelles and Oxford: Peter Lang, 2022), pp. 471-486
01-Jan-2021	Review-essay on John Milton, Epistolarum Familiarium, ed. Estelle Haan Review Review-essay in Modern Language Review, 116 (2021), 15-20
01-Jan-2020	Review of Ariosto, the Orlando Furioso and English Cultuire, ed. Jane Everson et al Review in Modern Language Review, 115 (2020) 698-9
01-Jan-2020	'Laurels for the Conquered: Cowley, Epic, and History', in Royalists and Royalism in 17th-century Literature Chapters Chapter in Royalists and Royalism in 17t-centuryLiterature, ed. Philip Major (2020), pp. 46-70
01-Jan-2020	Theatrical Companies and their Plays: Shakespeare and Marlowe Articles in Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, 33 (2020), 167-87
01-Jan-2020	Review of Early Shakespeare 1588-1594, ed. Loughnane and Power Review in Modern Philology, 118 (2020)
01-Jan-2020	Review of Matthew Augustine, Aesthetics of Contingency Review in Modern Philology, 117 (2020), E253-6
01-Jan-2020	Review of Christopher Hill, Milton and the English Revolution Review in Cercles (2020)
01-Jan-2020	Review of Rachel Hammersley, James Harrington: An Intellectual Biography Review in Cercles (2020)
01-Jan-2020	Review of Gordon Teskey, Spenserian Moments Review in Cercles (2020)
01-Jan-2019	Review of William Poole, Milton and the Making of Paradise Lost Review in Cercles (2018)
01-Jan-2019	The Need to Tell Your Story Articles Review-article on Zwerdling, The Rise of the Memoir, in The European Legacy, 24 (2019), 432-6
01-Jan-2019	Review of Greenblatt, The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve Review Review of Greenblatt, The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve, in The European Legacy, 24 (2019), and, in expanded and revised version, in Milton Quarterly (2019)
01-Jan-2019	Review of Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, directed by Gregory Doran (RSC), 22 Oct 2019 Review Review in Shakespeare, 15 (2019), 195-7
01-Jan-2018	'Milton's Fit Audience' Chapters    In 'MIlton Studies', edited by Laura Knoppers, 60 (2018), 109-134
01-Jan-2018	Review of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale Review  Review of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale at Shakespeare's Globe, 27 June 2018, in 'Shakespeare'. 14 (2018).
01-Jan-2018	Harsh Remedies: Satire and Politics in 'Last Instructions to a Painter' Chapters     Chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Andrew Marvell, ed. Martin Dzelzainis and Edward Holberton, Oxford University Press, 2018
01-Jan-2018	Choosing a Captain Back for Egypt: Milton and the Restortion Chapters  in From Revolution to Restoration, ed. Janet Clare (Manchester University Press, 2018), 245-66
01-Jan-2017	Review of John Donne, ed. Janel Mueller Review  Review of John Donne, ed. Janel Mueller (Oxford University Press, 2015), in The Seventeenth Century, 32 (2017), 217-20
01-Jan-2017	Review of Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Early Modern England Review  Review of The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Early Modern England, ed, Kevin Killee et al (Oxford University Press, 2015), in MIlton Quarterly, 51 (2017), 124-7.
01-Jan-2017	Review of Richard Wilson, Worldly Shakespeare Review  Review of Richard Wilson, Worldly Shakespeare (Edinburgh, 2016), in Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 2017, 30-31.
01-Jan-2017	Review of William Walker, Antiformalist, Unrevolutionary, Illiberal Milton Review  Review of William Walker, Antiformalist, Unrevolutionary, Illiberal Milton (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014), in The European Legacy, 22 (2017),358-61
01-Jan-2017	Review of Milton in the Long Restoration, ed. Blair Hoxby and Anne Baynes Coiro Review  Review of MIlton in the Long Restoration, ed. Blair Hoxby and Anne Baynes Coiro (Oxford University Preess, 2016), in The European Legacy, 22 (2017), forthcoming
01-Jan-2017	Milton and the Burden of Freedom Monographs  Cambridge Univesity Press, 2017
01-Jan-2016	“The Death of the Roman Republic: Julius Caesar and Cicero” Chapters  in Julius Caesar: A Critical Readeer, ed. Andrew James Hartley (Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2016), pp. 175-99, 255-9.
01-Jan-2016	Crossing the Red Sea: The Ceremonial Law, Typology, and the Imagination Chapters      Chapter in Thomas Traherne and Seventeenth Century Thought (Boydell and Brewer, 2016), pp. 107-129
01-Jan-2016	Review of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice Review  Review of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice at Shakespeare's Globe, in "Shakespeare", 12 (2016), 71-73.
01-Jan-2016	Review of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure Review  Review of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure at Shakespeare's Globe, in "Shakespeare", 12 (2016),
01-Jan-2016	Review of The Arden Shakespeare Coriolanus, ed. Peter Holland Review   Shakespeare Quarterly, 66 (Winter 2015), 463-5.
01-Jan-2016	Review of Rachel Foxley, The Levellers: Radical political thought in the English Revolution Review  Review of Rachel Foxley, The Levellers: Radical political thought in the English Revolution, in The European Legacy, 20 (2015), 783-4
01-Jan-2015	Pepys and the Restoration Theatre Chapters  Chapter in Samuel Pepys: Plague, Fire, Revolution, ed, Margarette Lincoln (Thames and Hudson, 2015), pp. 80-89.
01-Jan-2014	Review of Ian Gentles, Oliver Cromwell: God’s Warrior and the English Revolution Review  Review of Ian Gentles, Oliver Cromwell: God’s Warrior and the English Revolution, in The European Legacy, 19 (2014).
01-Jan-2014	Review of Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi at Shakespeare’s Globe Review  Review of Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi at Shakespeare’s Globe, in Shakespeare, 10 (2014), 346-8.
01-Jan-2014	Shakespeare at Work: Four Kings and Two Shrews Articles  Cahiers Elisabethains, 85 (Spring 2014), 21-38.
01-Jan-2014	Instruments of Darkness: Witches and the Supernatural in Four Versions of Macbeth Articles      in Shakespeare on Screen: Macbeth, ed, Sarah Hatchuel, Nathalie Vienne-GUerrin and Victoria Bladen. Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre, 2013, 37-52
01-Jan-2014	Shakespeare as Co-Author: The Case of 1 Henry VI Journal articles  in Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, 27 (2014), 192-220
01-Jan-2014	Review of Marlowe's Doctor Faustus at Shakespeare's Globe Review  Review of Marlowe's Doctor Faustus at Shakespeare's Globe  in  Shakespeare, 9 (2013), 128-31.
01-Jan-2013	Review essay on five plays in Globe to Globe season, Shakespeare's Globe, April-June 2012 In Shakespeare, 9 (2013), 241-7
01-Jan-2013	Choosing a Captain Back for Egypt: Milton and the Restoration Chapters Accepted for publication in From Republic to Restoration: Legacies and Departures, ed. Janet Clare (Manchester University Press, 2013).
01-Jan-2013	Dying Young: Shakespeare's Children Journal articles in English, 62 (2013), 103-26
01-Jan-2013	The Hebrew Bible and the Propaganda Wars. Review essay of Achsah Guibbory, Christian Identity, Jews, and Israel in Seventeenth Century England, in The European Legacy, 18 (2013), 479-82.
01-Jan-2013	Review of Shakespeare's Richard III at Shakespeare's Globe   In Shakespeare, 9 (2013), 128-31.
01-Jan-2013	Review of Shakespeare's Henry V at Shakespeare's Globe In Shakespeare, 9 (2013), 125-7
01-Jan-2013	The Myth of Rome in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries Monographs Cambridge University Press, 201.Paperback edition, 2013
01-Jan-2012	The Dyer's Hand: Jonson and Shakespeare Chapters Chapter in The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists, ed. Ton Hoenselaars. Cambridge University Press, 2012, pp. 54-69
01-Jan-2012	'Paradise Recovered: Milton and Traherne' Articles Gabor Ittyes and Miklos Peti, eds. Milton Through the Centuries. Budapest: L'Harmattan Publishing, 2012
01-Jan-2012	'Tragic Freedom in Samson Agonistes' Journal articles Joseph Shub, ed. John Milton, European, Part 1: The European Legacy, 17.2 (April 2012), pp. 197-211.
01-Jan-2012	"Areopagitica: The Known Rules of Antient Libertie" Journal articles in John Milton, European, Part 2, ed. Joseph Shub. The European Legacy, 17.3 (June 2012), pp. 317-331.
01-Jan-2012	Review of Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing at Shakespeare's Globe, May 2011 Review In Shakespeare, 8 (July 2012), 262-3
01-Jan-2012	Review of Marlowe's Doctor Faustus at Shakespeare's Globe, June 2011 Review In Shakespeare, 9 (2013), 128-31
01-Jan-2011	Review of Julie Sanders, ed., Ben Jonson in Context Review Cahiers Elisabethains, 79 (Spring 2011)
01-Jan-2011	Review of Antony and Cleopatra, Royal Shakespeare Company, May 2010 Review Shakespeare, 7 (April 2011)
01-Jan-2011	Review of Henry VIII, Shakespeare's Globe, May 2010 Shakespeare, 7 (April 2011)
01-Jan-2011	“Linked Sweetness: Milton and Music” The Seventeenth Century Journal articles The Seventeenth Century, 26 (2011). 23-43
01-Jan-2011	“Sex. Tyranny, and the Problem of Allegiance: Political Drama in the Restoration”, in Theatre and Culture in Early Modern England: Leviathan to Licensing Act, ed. Catie Gill Chapters Ashgate, 2010 pp. 87-105
01-Jan-2009	The Poet's Time: Politics and Religion in the Work of Andrew Marvell Monographs Cambridge University Press. Reprinted 2009.
01-Jan-2008	"Such a king as no chisel can mend": Marvell, Charles II, and Republicanism Chapters In New Perspectives on Andrew Marvell, ed. Gilles Sambras. Reims, Epure, 2008, pp. 97-111
01-Jan-2007	The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's History Plays Monographs Cambridge University Press, 2007
01-Jan-2005	"Was Marvell a Republican?" Journal articles The Sewventeenth Century , 20 (2005), 77-96
01-Jan-2005	The Merchant of Venice Writers and their Work series. Tavistock: Northcote House, in association with the British Council
01-Jan-2004	Review of Brian Vickers 'Shakespeare, Co-Author: A Historical Study of Five Collaborative Plays' Review Review of Brian Vickers 'Shakespeare, Co-Author: A Historical Study of Five Collaborative Plays', Modern Language Review, 99
01-Jan-2004	Review of 'The Prose Works of Andrew Marvell' Review Review of 'The Prose Works of Andrew Marvell', ed. Annabel Patterson et al, Review of English Studies, 55.
01-Jan-2004	Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Research aids Lives of Edmund Waller, Katherine Philips, Thomas Stanley, William Chillingworth, James Nokes, Dorothy Spenser Countess of Sunderland, Richard Ames, John Ayloffe, Alexander Radcliffe, Car Scrope, William Hicks, Henry Parrot, and Robert Mylne.
01-Jan-2003	Review of Odai Johnson 'Rehearsing the Revolution: Radical Politics in the English Restoration' Review Review of Odai Johnson 'Rehearsing the Revolution: Radical Politics in the English Restoration', Modern Language Review, 98.
01-Jan-2002	Captains and Slaves: Aphra Behn and the Rhetoric of Republicanism' The Seventeenth Century 17

Relevant Events

Related events:

Date	Details
27-Jul-2022	Exiles' Return: Cowley, Waller, Hobbes International Conference on the theme of exile in the Restoration (1660 and after), Bangor, 27 July 2022
24-Jun-2022	Service and Servitude in Herbert and Marvell International Conference on George Herbert, Cambridge, 24 June 2022
01-Jan-2022	The Universal Wolf: Thersites' War  International Shakespeare Conference, Stratford upon Avon, 24 July 2018. Accepted for publication in Cahiers Elisabethains (2022)
19-Jun-2019	Friends and Readers: Donne, Milton, and Marvell International Milton Symposium, 17-21 June 2019. Accepted for publication in a collection of essays from this seminar, ed. Christophe Tournu. To be published 2002-03.
01-Jan-2019	Donne, Milton, and the Understanders  Conference on Difficulty in Early Modern Literature, King's College London, 26/7 October 2018  and (in revised form) International Milton Symposium, Strasbourg, 17-19 June 2019.
01-Jan-2019	History as Warning: Middleton, Massinger, and the Censors Seminar paper in 'Changing Histories' conference, King's College London, July 2019
01-Jan-2018	Theatrical Companies and their Plays: Shakespeare and Marlowe  In 'Marlowe and Shakespeare'Conference, Kingston Shakespeare Seminar and the Marlowe Society, Rose Theatre Kingston, 17/18 November 2017
01-Jan-2018	Mine Iron Heart: Grace and Despair in Donne  Paper on John Donne, invited speaker at Exeter University, 20 January 2018 and at ULELMA (University of London), 27 December 2017
01-Jan-2017	Eve's Turning Point: Politics and Theology in Paradise Lost (1667)  Seminar paper, Bangor Conference on the Restoration, July 2017
01-Jan-2016	God's Just Yoke: Justice in Paradise Lost  British MIlton Seminar, October 2015, and International Association of University Professors of English, London, July 2016
01-Jan-2015	Providence and Freedom in Milton  International Milton Symposium, University of Exeter, July 2015
15-Mar-2014	Tyrannie must be: Milton and the Restoration  Seminar paper, British Milton Seminar, Bermingham, March 2014
01-Jan-2014	Mark Twain and America: A Studey in Contradictions  Lecture delivered at University of London Extra-Mural Association, December 2013.
01-Jan-2014	The Death of the Roman Republic: Julius Caesar and Cicero  Seminar paper, International Shajkespeare Conference, Stratford upon Avon, August 2014
01-Jan-2014	Pepys and the Restoration Theatre  Essay to be included in a catalogue for an exhibition on Samuel Pepys at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, in 2015.
01-Jan-2013	"Shakespeare as Co-Author: The Case of 2 Henry VI" Accepted for publication in Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, 27 (2014)
01-Jan-2013	Crosing the Red Sea: 'The Ceremonial Law', Typology, and the Imagination Accepted for publication in a volume of essays on Thomas Traherne
01-Jan-2013	"Monarchy and Servitude: The Politics of Paradise Lost" Seminar paper, conference on Images of Monarchy, 1649-=1714, Bangor University, July 2013
01-Jan-2013	"Myths of Rome: Julius Caesar and Coriolanus Seminar paper, ESRA conference on Shakespeare and Myth, Montpellier, France, June 2013
01-Jan-2013	"I banish you: Shakespeare's Coriolanus Programme note for production of Coriolanus by The Shakespeare Theatre, |Washington, DC, USA, March-June 2013.
01-Jan-2012	Shakespeare at Work: Four Kings and Two Shrews seminar paper, International Shakespeare Conference, Stratford upon Avon, 6-10 August 2012. Accepted for publication in Cahiers Elisabethains, 2014
01-Jan-2011	“Tragic Freedom in Samson Agonistes” British Milton Seminar
01-Jan-2011	Instruments of Darkness: Witches and the Supernatural in Four Versions of Macbeth World Shakespeare Congress, Prague, Czech ;Republic, 19 July 2011. Accepted for publication in Shakespeare on Screen: Macbeth.
01-Jan-2011	Julius Caesar and Republicanism: Shakespeare. Jonson;, and some contemporaries seminar paper, Ancient Rome and Early Modern England conference, Jesus College Osvord, 21-22 May 2011.
01-Jan-2010	Political Shakespeare Conference paper. International Shakespeare Seminar, 9-11 August 2010
01-Jan-2010	The Early Shakespeare and Pembroke's Men Seminar. British Shakespeare Association conference, 11-13 September 2010
01-Jan-2009	Dying young: Shakespeare's children Keynote speaker. Canterbury Christ Church University, 28-29 March 2009.
01-Jan-2009	Linked sweetness: Milton and Music Conference paper. Oxford University, 24-5 March 2009. Accepted for publication in The Seventeenth Century (2011).
01-Jan-2009	Julius Caesar and Republicanism Conference Paper. Newcastle University, 16-18 July 2009
	history as warning: Middleton, Massinger, and the Censors Accepted for publication in Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England (2023)

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