There is a story that, while serving as a young cadet, Edgar Allan Poe was expelled for reporting to a military march wearing nothing but a pair of white gloves. It appears that this is an urban legend, but there are many aspects of Poe’s life and work which are […]
By Professor Stanley Wells, CBE It’s not often, when one publishes a book, that a parody of it appears shortly afterwards – or, indeed, ever – but this has happened with Shakespeare Beyond Doubt, the collection of essays that I edited along with Paul Edmondson and that was published by […]
Here’s a piece our founder-editor, Oliver Tearle, wrote for the Durham University ‘Research in English at Durham’ blog page on ‘the importance of being interesting’…