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"Mady's tightrope walk": The Career of Marian Huxley Collier (2013)
Book Chapter
Sanders, V. (2013). "Mady's tightrope walk": The Career of Marian Huxley Collier. In K. Hadjiafxendi, & T. Zakreski (Eds.), Crafting the Woman Professional in the Long Nineteenth Century. Artistry and Industry in Britain (227-242). Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315574561

The chapter considers the career of Thomas Henry Huxley's artist daughter Marian Collier, and what it tells us about the 'invisibility' of Victorian women artists: some shared themes of which are reflected in Ella Hepworth Dixons  1894 novel, 'The St... Read More about "Mady's tightrope walk": The Career of Marian Huxley Collier.

Warriors and ruins: Cymbeline, heroism and the union of crowns (2013)
Book Chapter
Mottram, S. (2013). Warriors and ruins: Cymbeline, heroism and the union of crowns. In W. Maley, & R. Loughnane (Eds.), Celtic Shakespeare : The Bard and the Borderers (169-183). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315571096-11

Heroism is a key characteristic of Cymbeline’s Britons, and it played a crucial role also in the construction of Britain in the period of the play’s composition, although it is an ethos we tend today to associate more with Henry Frederick than with h... Read More about Warriors and ruins: Cymbeline, heroism and the union of crowns.

'I know this labyrinth so well': narrative mappings in the poetry of Ciaran Carson (2013)
Book Chapter
Weston, D. (2013). 'I know this labyrinth so well': narrative mappings in the poetry of Ciaran Carson. In N. Alexander, & D. Cooper (Eds.), Poetry & geography: Space & place in post-war poetry (105-119). Liverpool University Press. https://doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9781846318641.003.0008

Ciaran Carson is increasingly recognised as a poet of place, of the city, and specifically of Belfast. However, Carson's work is also permeated by the Northern Irish Troubles in thoroughgoing ways. This essay elucidates the ways in which his poetry o... Read More about 'I know this labyrinth so well': narrative mappings in the poetry of Ciaran Carson.

Countering anti-theatricality: Davenant and the drama of the protectorate (2012)
Book Chapter
Clare, J. (2012). Countering anti-theatricality: Davenant and the drama of the protectorate. In The Oxford handbook of literature and the English Revolution (498 - 515). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199560608.013.0027

This article begins with a discussion of the parliamentary-Puritan opposition to theatre during the Civil Wars and after the regicide. It then turns to the restoration of the monarchy in 1653, and the efforts of Richard Flecknoe and William Davenant... Read More about Countering anti-theatricality: Davenant and the drama of the protectorate.

William Browne and the writing of early Stuart Wales (2012)
Book Chapter
Mottram, S. (2012). William Browne and the writing of early Stuart Wales. In S. Mottram, & S. Prescott (Eds.), Writing Wales, from the Renaissance to Romanticism (91-107). Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315546131

A shared ethnic crisis has produced dramatically antithetical solutions, and whereas the myth-making of Pugh and Evans is in essence no more than an effort to salvage the myth-symbol complex of the Welsh past, Morgan Llwyd's work seeks to fashion tha... Read More about William Browne and the writing of early Stuart Wales.

Thomas Hardy and the visual arts (2012)
Book Chapter
(2012). Thomas Hardy and the visual arts. In Thomas Hardy in context (436 - 448). Cambridge University Press

Introduction (2012)
Book Chapter
Mottram, S., & Prescott, S. (2012). Introduction. In S. Mottram, & S. Prescott (Eds.), Writing Wales, from the Renaissance to Romanticism (3-15). Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315546131

In Writing Wales we are concerned, not only to trace the evolution of Wales' written representation over the period from the Renaissance to Romanticism', but also to chart in these written representations the changing motivations of writers, poets, a... Read More about Introduction.

Democratisation (2012)
Book Chapter
Seoane, E., & Farrelly, M. (2012). Democratisation. In The Oxford handbook of the history of English (392 - 401). Oxford University Press

Censorship (2011)
Book Chapter
Clare, J. (2011). Censorship. In The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare (276 - 294). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199566105.013.0016

This article discusses the control and regulation of playhouses during Shakespeare's career; The Book of Sir Thomas More; and Jacobean censorship. Elizabethan censorship in the decades preceding and coinciding with Shakespeare's early career evolved... Read More about Censorship.

The theatre and political control (2011)
Book Chapter
Clare, J. (2011). The theatre and political control. In Thomas Middleton in context (176 - 184). Cambridge University Press

Ellen Terry: preserving the relics and creating the brand (2011)
Book Chapter
(2011). Ellen Terry: preserving the relics and creating the brand. In Ellen Terry: spheres of influence (133 - 148). Pickering and Chatto

The collection of more than 20,000 papers belonging to Ellen Terry and Edith Craig at Smallhythe Place, Tenterden, Kent comprise one of the UK’s most significant theatre archives. This essay outlines the history of the archive, the active collection... Read More about Ellen Terry: preserving the relics and creating the brand.