By On 18 Jauary I went to The Park Theatre in Finsbury Park to see Steve Trafford’s The Restoration of Nell Gwyn. The play focuses on the hours before Charles II’s death and we follow Nell (Elizabeth Mansfield) as she worries about her future and reflects on her past. In a
Children of Wrath
New Book Published – ‘Children of Wrath: Possession, Prophecy and the Young in Early Modern England’ – Anna French I have been meaning to (promising to) write a blog post on my recently published monograph, Children of Wrath: Possession, Prophecy and the Young in Early Modern England, for some time
Review: Mr Foote’s Other Leg
In January I went to see Mr Foote’s Other Leg, at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. Directed by Richard Eyre and written by Ian Kelly, the play is billed as follows, In Georgian London no one is more famous than Samuel Foote. Satirist, impressionist and dangerous comedian, he has become a
By Flesh and Spirit
This week’s post is a quick look at the anthology Flesh and Spirit: An Anthology of Seventeenth-century Women’s Writing August saw the first anniversary of the publication of Flesh and Spirit: An Anthology of Seventeenth-century Women’s Writing (Manchester University Press, 2014) co-edited by Sara, with Rachel Adcock (Keele) and Anna Ziomek. Since we didn’t