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Why do people so often approach nature with the same kinds of rapt aesthetic and spiritual attention that they bring to works of art? Why do they seek in nature both their most unique (or “true”) personal self and at the same time a defining source of collective identity, such as the spirit of a […]
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When we think about lyric poetry and song traditions in the Roman Empire, the association is hardly new. Horace’s refined lyric experiments are well known, and Nero’s dramatic (and infamous) performance during the Great Fire of Rome in 64 CE—singing while the city burned—has become part of popular legend. But what about the Greek East, […]
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At the time of writing, I am lucky enough to be working as a visiting fellow at the Arts and Humanities Institute of Maynooth University in Kildare. The university houses the archives of Teresa Deevy, a remarkable Irish playwright whose work had been largely overlooked by critics after her death in 1963 until some recovery […]
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When the idea of setting up a Modern Languages school (which was intended to include the study of English) was being debated at the University of Oxford in the late 1880s, E.A. Freeman, Regius Professor of Modern History, witheringly dismissed the study of literature as ‘mere chatter about Shelley’. Freeman was impressed with his coinage, […]
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Can editing an encyclopedia of stage directors be anything but an impossible task? Simon Williams (UC Santa Barbara) and I were invited to consider such an undertaking just under a decade ago; Simon had just published an encyclopedia of stage actors and acting, and this felt like a sensible next stage. We soon realised, however, […]
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Shuffling past the French Department noticeboard one day in my undergraduate first year, a small ad caught my eye. A week in Paris. All expenses paid. Was I dreaming? The small print, however, confirmed that there’s no such thing as a free déjeuner. I’d have to see a play every night and discuss it the […]
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When the editors of The New Cambridge History of Russian Literature first contacted me with a request to serve on the volume’s advisory council, they promised that their demands on my time would be “neither too frequent nor too arduous.” They were true to their word, and as a result I can claim little credit […]
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When, in his 1716 poem Trivia: or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London, John Gay announced he would instruct his readers on “How to walk clean by Day, and safe by Night”, he firmly positioned his account between two different modes of representing the city. Like Ned Ward’s The London Spy, Gay’s poem […]
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