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Reflections apropos of Two Australian Books on Shakespeare
(2012-05-01)
Review essay
Review of The Melancholy Assemblage: Affect and Epistemology in the English Renaissance by Drew Daniel.
(2014-05-02)
Review of The Melancholy Assemblage: Affect and Epistemology in the English Renaissance by Drew Daniel.
Editing a Book for a Series
(Australian National University, Canberra, 1985)
The author uses his own experience as a basis for discussing some of the the more practical aspects of editing.
The Brave New Feminist World of Joan Lindsay’s “Picnic at Hanging Rock”
(Argument-Verlag, 1988)
An analysis of the significance of the fate of the missing women in 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' results in a discussion of feminism as portrayed in the novel. Joan Lindsay shocks us into an awareness of what women are capable ...
The Text of Alinda’s Song ‘I am not proud’ in John Fletcher’s “The Pilgrim”, IV.ii.
(Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, 1992)
Whatever John Fletcher's failings as a dramatist, there is general agreement that he was a master of song-writing. It is perplexing, therefore, to see Cyrus Hoy, in his authoritative edition of the play, produce a version ...
R.A.K. Mason: The Poet as a Pacific Christ
(Centre for Research in the New Literatures in English, Flinders University, 1981)
The vast majority of Mason's poems derive their individual character not only from his use of language, but also, and above all, from his perceiving of himself as a Christ in New Zealand, ignored and victimised by a society ...
The Significance of the 'Tho' signs in Wyatt's Egerton Manuscript
(Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1987)
There are some features about the Egerton Manuscript 2711, containing Thomas Wyatt's verse amongst that of other authors, which scholars have found rather puzzling. In particular, there has been considerable controversy ...
‘A jail, a jail’ in Dekker’s "2 Honest Whore”,
(Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, 1996)
The text of Thomas Dekker's '2 Honest Whore' contains a number of errors which one would expect in a quarto of this kind - in essence publishing errors. This brief paper discusses one such error, crediting Alexander Dyce ...
Self-Publishing
(Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, 1985)
A favourable review of two books on the topic of self-publishing.
A History of Confusion: The Two Earliest English Translations of Oscar Wilde’s “Salome”
(Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, 2002)
A translation of Salome from the original French into English by Lord Alfred Douglas has been persistently confused with a later, drastically overhauled version - virtually a new translation - first published in 1906 and ...