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Posted 04 February 2021 King Charles II and the Beaumont and Fletcher Folio Recent PHd Student Dr José Pérez Díez will introduce this landmark book which features 34 plays by English dramatists Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher.
Posted 04 February 2021 World's Stage - a multilingual celebration of Birmingham, Brummies and their Shakespeare The Everything to Everybody project, led by Professor Ewan Fernie of The Shakespeare Institute, have launched "World's Stage" a series of seven new short films.
Posted 21 January 2021 Beyond Outlander: An alternative history of Scottish romantic fiction Dr Amy Burge of the Department of English Literature argues for a reconsideration of Scottish author Annie S. Swan's legacy as a bestselling author of Scottish romance in the early twentieth century.
Posted 12 January 2021 A Clergyman's Daughter (1935) Centre for Modernist Cultures co-director Nathan Waddell published a new edition of George Orwell's least-familiar novel, A Clergyman's Daughter (1935) in the Oxford World's Classics series.
Dr Hannah Field (Sussex), 'Indestructible, Destructible, and Destroyed: Nineteenth-Century Novelty Picture Books and the Embodied Child Reader' 31Mar
From Fairy Queens in "Gauze and Spangles" to "Shakespeare in Black Velvet": Examining Changing Attitudes to Theatre Costume in the Long 19th Century c. 1789-1914 19May