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Author: Kirsty Crosbie

Cultural Studies

The Holocaust and Climate Change: Shakespeare’s King Lear and Dennis Kelly’s The Gods Weep

posted by Kirsty Crosbie July 12, 202110 min read143 Views

by Dr Richard Ashby Dr Richard Ashby analyses the 2010 Dennis Kelly play The Gods Weep, showing that playwright Dennis…

Cultural Studies

The Importance of Place

posted by Kirsty Crosbie June 30, 20215 min read112 Views

By Jennifer Burek Pierce Place is central to John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars and to the community of…

Language and Literature

Q&A with the editors of Reverberations of Revolution: Transnational Perspectives, 1770-1850

posted by Kirsty Crosbie June 24, 20218 min read139 Views

by Elizabeth Amann & Michael Boyden 1. How did this book come about? Michael: This collected volume came out of a…

Cultural Studies

Souvenirs of the Victorian Global Bookshelf

posted by Kirsty Crosbie June 23, 20218 min read152 Views

by Alexander Bubb It began with a case of mistaken identity. In 2016 I was growing deeply interested in The…

Cultural Studies

Impress Me With Your Books: A Peek Into My Chapter in The Edinburgh History of Reading

posted by Kirsty Crosbie June 16, 20219 min read163 Views

by Nicole Gonzalez Lovely balance Andrew Neil. The open neck and rolled up sleeves tell us this is a relaxed,…

Language and Literature

Walter Scott’s Seven Deadly Tales

posted by Kirsty Crosbie June 7, 20219 min read326 Views

by Daniel Cook Still revered as one of the world’s great historical novelists, Sir Walter Scott kept coming back to…

British History

St. Helen’s, the East India Company and Shakespeare

posted by Kirsty Crosbie May 14, 20217 min read300 Views

by Geoffrey Marsh Wednesday 31 December 1600 is one of the pivotal dates in English history. It was not only…

Cultural Studies

Q&A with Mark Mclay, author of ‘The Republican Party and the War on Poverty: 1964–1981’

posted by Kirsty Crosbie May 11, 20215 min read240 Views

Tell us a bit about your book. My book is on recent American political history. It examines the Republican Party’s…

Language and Literature

The Library of Comfort

posted by Kirsty Crosbie May 10, 20219 min read261 Views

by Jürgen Pieters The painting on my new book’s cover was made by the Viennese artist Friedrich Frotzel (1898-1971). Its…

British History

Five Interesting Neighbours of Shakespeare in the 1590s

posted by Kirsty Crosbie April 30, 20217 min read155 Views

by Geoffrey Marsh Who were the most interesting ‘neighbours’ of that Living with Shakespeare explores?  I tried to follow up…

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