What Scottish play, published in 1725, reached over 100 printings by 1800, was called ‘the noblest pastoral’ by Robert Burns, inspired more than forty paintings, more than ‘from the entire works of Chaucer, Defoe, Swift, Richardson, or Fielding’ (R. Altick, Paintings from Books), and was performed by amateur companies throughout Scotland as late as the end of the 19th century?
Category: Pre 19th Century Literary Studies
To celebrate the birth month of William Shakespeare, we have curated a special Shakespeare Virtual Issue comprising seven articles and…
by Steven Monte Tell us a bit about your book… The book is essentially about two things: reading Shakespeare’s Sonnets…
By Christopher Stokes Skylarks, clouds, roses, rivers. What one of my undergraduate students once memorably termed the ‘flowers and s**t’…
Cultural Studies
The Holocaust and Climate Change: Shakespeare’s King Lear and Dennis Kelly’s The Gods Weep
by Dr Richard Ashby Dr Richard Ashby analyses the 2010 Dennis Kelly play The Gods Weep, showing that playwright Dennis…
By Brett Andrew Jones It wasn’t every day that accusations of cannibalism flew around the early Jacobean court. That’s (one…
Language and Literature
Q&A with the editors of Reverberations of Revolution: Transnational Perspectives, 1770-1850
by Elizabeth Amann & Michael Boyden 1. How did this book come about? Michael: This collected volume came out of a…
by Daniel Cook Still revered as one of the world’s great historical novelists, Sir Walter Scott kept coming back to…
By Laura McCormick Kilbride, Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft, and Simone Kotva Is reading a theological activity? This is a question which…
by Geoffrey Marsh Wednesday 31 December 1600 is one of the pivotal dates in English history. It was not only…