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Ayanna Thompson, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race (Cambridge: CUP, 2021); and David Loewenstein and Paul Stevens, eds, The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and War (Cambridge: CUP, 2021)
No full textUna McIlvenna. Singing the News of Death: Execution Ballads in Europe 1500-1900 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022)
Full text linkLisa Hopkins and Tom Rutter, eds, A Companion to the Cavendishes (Leeds: ARC Humanities Press, 2020)
Full text linkAuthority and the Problem of Other Minds in Shakespeare’s ‘Henriad’
Full text linkThe critical tradition surrounding Shakespeare’s Henriad plays has long been divided along the fault line of Hal’s supposed princely virtues. Is Prince Hal a hero, resolving a crisis of authority at the upper reaches of government? Or is he something less than that, a Machiavellian scoundrel or a mouthpiece for nationalist rhetoric? Perhaps one reason critical consensus on these plays has been so elusive is that the plays’ action itself centers around an interpretive problem – the problem of other minds. This paper will discuss several ways that these plays signal a shift in political theory within sixteenth-century England, a shift in which the interpretation of other minds becomes an important tool of institutional policy. The advent of sovereignty informs this shift, and defines a broad culture of personal rule. New theories on the sovereignty of the king-in-parliament set the tone for an angst-ridden turn from a metaphysical model of authority to one more epistemically oriented. My paper discusses the ways this angst inscribes within the Henriad plays, particularly surrounding the person of Prince Hal
Greg Doran, My Shakespeare: A Director's Journey through the First Folio (London: Methuen, 2023)
Full text linkThe Year’s Work in Marlowe Studies: 2021
Full text linkThis is an overview of relevant scholarship on Marlowe's poetry and plays written in English during the year 2021
Asynchronous Edward: Comparing Online Responses to Gender in Christopher Marlowe's Edward II and Elizabeth Cary's The History of the Most Unfortunate Prince Edward II
Full text linkThis essay examines how students in an online undergraduate English literature survey course (in 2023) reacted to and wrote responses in forum posts to a comparative reading of Christopher Marlowe’s sixteenth century play Edward II and Elizabeth Cary’s seventeenth century prose account of the same monarch. 
"Why, this is Hell, nor are we out of it": The Problem with Marlowe in UK English Secondary Schools (and How to Get Over It)
Full text linkReaders of this journal will need no persuading that Christopher Marlowe is in the pantheon of genius playwrights. Were you to ask students who have gone no further than A-Level English in UK schools about Marlowe, however, their answer would probably be “Who?”
The average English school leaver, even if she has studied English to A-Level, is likely to have studied no more than three or four plays from the early modern period, and all of them by one author.
In this brief paper, I wish to offer some historical reasons for this ignorance, and explain, using examples from my own history as a secondary school teacher of 33 years, how to address and potentially overcome it
The False One: John Fletcher and Philip Massinger, ed. by Domenico Lovascio (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022)
Full text linkImpact of Environmental, Social and Governance Factors on the performance of Fintech Companies in the UK
Full text linkThis research proposal aims to carry out research about how financial technology (FinTech) firms in the UK stick to sustainability measures as compared to their counterparts. In addition, to carry out research regarding the effect of sustainability measures on the performance of FinTech companies' stock. Secondary data from peer-reviewed origins would be collected from sources like Financial Times, Bank of England, Bloomberg or the Financial Conduct Authority.
Keywords: Sustainability, Environmental, Social, Governance, Climate change, Fintech