James Armstrong, Playwright

I've written before about the actor Edmund Kean's working-class associations, including his membership in the notorious Wolves Club ...

I recently read Jonathan Mulrooney's book Romanticism and Theatrical Experience . It provides an excellent analysis of the actor Edmund...

Yesterday was the final day of the Modern Language Association conference in New York. I was pleased to be able to present two papers at the...

Edmund Kean has gone down in history as one of the greatest (though not one of the most beloved) actors of Shakespeare. The exact date of Ke...

So yesterday I explained how M.H. Abrams in his book The Mirror and the Lamp traces English Romantic thought back to German theories of ve...