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Articles by Peter J. Smith
Peter J. Smith gets drowned in the detail of an ambitious study of the playwright’s milieu
Peter J. Smith enjoys a powerful analysis of how the work of the Bard cuts through simplistic notions of national identity
Peter J. Smith admires a bold attempt to show how details of poetic form reflected deep political and religious divisions in early modern England
Peter J. Smith applauds a fascinating, if stomach-churning, study of ‘the pongs of the past’
Peter J. Smith enjoys a vivid, if perhaps idealised, account of life in one of the world’s great breweries
Peter J. Smith raises a glass to ‘conviviality’ in life and literature
Peter J. Smith on an ambitious effort to mobilise Middle English literature for modern feminism
Peter J. Smith wishes the UK would adopt a US approach to making the Bard more accessible
Book of the week: Will we swallow a radical take on a Shakespearean tragedy served with edibles? asks Peter J. Smith
While many see hilarity in paying the water bill our feelings about it fluctuate, says Peter J. Smith
Peter J. Smith on a study of the interrelationship between visual culture and the theatre in 16th- and 17th-century England
Peter J. Smith lauds a powerful study of the relationship between homoerotic desire and anxieties about social, religious, cultural and even apocalyptic collapse
What use is the Bard? In politics or life, what you do with his plays is up to you, finds Peter J. Smith
Seeking a deep conversation between Scripture and the Bard’s works is a fool’s errand, argues Peter J. Smith
A study confronts the theme of mortality during the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s passing
Amid all the events to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, Peter J. Smith contemplates our appetite for everything – and anything – to do with the Bard
Peter J. Smith on a study of the history of drama in penal settings
Peter J. Smith on what books collections tell us about the collector
The medieval weather forecast is climatically wrong, argues Peter J. Smith
