Author: Robert Maslen

‘Nonsense’, wrote Mervyn Peake, ‘can take you by the hand and lead you nowhere. It’s magic.’ Peake (1911-68) is one of the great English nonsense poets, in the tradition of Lewis Carroll and Edward L …

It is forty years since the death of Mervyn Peake (1911-68), the author of the much-loved Gormenghast novels. To mark the anniversary this first comprehensive edition of Peake’s poetry is published. …

Comedy was at the centre of a critical storm that raged throughout the early modern period. Shakespeare”s plays made capital of this controversy. In them he deliberately invokes the case against com …

Essays on topics of literary interest crossing the boundaries between the medieval and early modern period. The borderline between the periods commonly termed ‘medieval’ and ‘Renaissance’, or ‘mediev …

Comedy was at the centre of a critical storm that raged throughout the early modern period. Shakespeare”s plays made capital of this controversy. In them he deliberately invokes the case against com …