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"'Foul, strange and unnatural': Poison as a murder weapon in English Renaissance drama"
(2020)
Less spectacular than theatrical violence involving bloodshed, stage murder by poison is nonetheless unsettling because of its secretive nature. Perceived in Renaissance England as dishonorable and unmanly, poison was ...
On the Edge of Chaos: Space and Power in Maria Edgeworth's "The Grateful Negro" (1804)
(Cambridge Unversity Press, 2022)
‘The Grateful Negro’ (1804) is one of Maria Edgeworth’s less well-known children’s stories. Set on a Jamaican plantation, it concerns the differing attitudes of two white plantation owners, Mr Edwards and Mr Jefferies, ...
Review
(2013)
Samuel Ferguson and the Culture of Nineteenth-Century Ireland
(Four Courts, 2004)
The Irish Masque at Court (1613)
(The Literary Dictionary Company, 2013)
Friel and his 'Sisters'
(2010)
This essay, occasioned by a revival of Brian Friel?s version of Chekhov?s
Three Sisters at the Abbey Theatre in 2008, considers the circumstances
surrounding its first production by the Field Day Theatre Company in
1981, ...
Ben Jonson's English Grammar
(The Literary Dictionary Company, 2013)