James Armstrong, Playwright

I’ve been in the United Kingdom for the 2024 conference of the British Association for Romantic Studies in Glasgow.   The conference kicked...

The actress Margaret Somerville made her debut at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane playing the female lead in Charles Robert Maturin's play...

I frequently write about nineteenth-century British actors on this blog, but today I'm going to write about a bygone performer from Fran...

In my last blog post, I wrote about the mysterious Mrs. Gibbs . Today, I'll be covering an actor about whom considerably more is known: ...

British Romantic writers were frequently inspired by what their colleagues were doing in Germany , but they also created their own version o...

On May 9, 1816, Charles Robert Maturin's play Bertram premiered at Drury Lane. Maturin had written some minor novels, but he had not ye...

No, that isn't a rejected motto for Chick-fil-A. It's the title of a really great book by Paul Ranger about gothic drama in England ...

Today I went to John K. King bookstore in downtown Detroit. Wow. I will definitely be coming back. They have an amazing collection of plays,...