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In their opinion article “Prints charming” (8 February) Al Martinich and Tom Palaima make an important claim that is demonstrably untrue. It is that the building of libraries in the US by the...
In their opinion article “Prints charming” (8 February) Al Martinich and Tom Palaima make an important claim that is demonstrably untrue. It is that the building of libraries in the US by the...
I have done the same Trac paperwork at the same institution as Toby Miller, and I think he is making a fuss over nothing (“My university has asked me to keep a diary of my work, and I hate it”,...
Many US homes have a mailbox at the edge of the property that residents visit to find out what has arrived since they last looked. That is a much better procedure than having post pushed through your...
Traditional literary approaches meet the latest stylometric analysis in determining who wrote the Bard’s plays
No tax inspector or police officer can claim rights over what they write for their jobs, so why should academics, asks Gabriel Egan
Gabriel Egan laments the narcissistic craving for others’ approval brought on, he says, by the use of social networking websites
I can confirm for Richard Hoyle that the journal Theatre Notebook is run on such “old-fashioned lines that the editors give their time for nothing”, or at least nothing pecuniary (“Pipe-dream...
The argument that William Shakespeare was not the prime author of the plays attributed to him has absolutely no basis in historical fact. No documents from the period provide any evidence of an...
UK’s only professor in education for deaf children among those winning fellowships
RENAISSANCE DRAMAAuthor: Sandra ClarkEdition: FirstPublisher: PolityPages: 232Price: £50.00 and £16.99ISBN 9780745633107 and 3114Sandra Clark rejects a Shakespeare-centred approach in this...
Open-access advocates are utopian thinkers whose ideas work only if you ignore the costs of journal publishing, argues Richard Hoyle
Open access is a utopian pipe dream, says Richard Hoyle