Published Articles
- Previously Unrecorded Verbal Parallels Between Histriomastix and The Acknowledged Works of John Marston (Notes and Queries, September 2004). In my first published article, I discussed verbal parallels between Histriomastix and other works by John Marston that support his authorship of Histriomastix.
- Links between Mucedorus and The Tragical History, Admirable Atchievments and Various Events of Guy Earl of Warwick (Notes and Queries, December 2006). This was my first published article discussing Guy. I noted links between Guy and Mucedorus that support the contention that Sparrow is a satire on Shakespeare.
- Why A Dog? A Late Date For The Two Gentlemen Of Verona (Notes and Queries, September 2007). In this article I proposed that Lance and his dog Crab in The Two Gentlemen Of Verona may be a satire on Nashe and Jonson's involvement in the Isle of Dogs affair, with the corollary that the date of Two Gentlemen was much later than previously thought, probably in late 1597 or early 1598. Although the article makes no mention of Guy, it is essential background reading for my follow-up article, Ben Jonson's 'Villanous Guy'.
- Ben Jonson's 'Villanous Guy' (Notes and Queries, December 2009). In this follow-up article to Why A Dog?, I argued that the clown Sparrow in Guy may be Ben Jonson's satirical response to Shakespeare's original satire on Jonson in Two Gentlemen, and that Thomas Dekker alludes to this in Satiromastix.
- 'Surprised into Sonneteering': Shakespeare's Sonnets and the Gray's Inn Revels of 1594-5 (Notes and Queries, September 2019). In this article I suggested that Shakespeare's decision to address many of his sonnets to a young man was inspired by the Gray's Inn Revels of 1594-5 and their Christmas Prince, Henry Helmes.
Selected Citations
- Previously Unrecorded Verbal Parallels Between Histriomastix and The Acknowledged Works of John Marston has been cited in Marston, Rivalry, Rapprochement, and Jonson by Charles Cathcart, and in The Disguised Ruler in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries by Kevin A. Quarmby. It was also reviewed in The Year's Work in English Studies: Renaissance Drama excluding Shakespeare (2006): '... John Peachman argues that this play from 1610 should probably still be viewed as a Marston text, thus disagreeing with the work of Roslyn L. Knutson from 2001. As evidence, Peachman presents a series of verbal parallels that do indeed appear to stand up to scrutiny.'
- Links between Mucedorus and The Tragical History, Admirable Atchievments and Various Events of Guy Earl of Warwick has been cited in Guy as Early Modern English Hero by Helen Cooper (essay in Guy of Warwick: Icon and Ancestor), in Guy of Warwick, Godfrey of Bouillon, and Elizabethan Repertory, Early Theatre 12.2 (2009) by Annaliese Connolly, in Shakespeare, Guy of Warwick, and Chines of Beef by Katherine Duncan-Jones, and in The Alchemist and Medieval Faerie Romance by Steve Bull.
- Why A Dog? was reviewed by Gabriel Egan in The Year's Work in English Studies: Shakespeare (2009). You can read his full review here. Kurt Schlueter cites Why A Dog? in his 2012 update of his New Cambridge Shakespeare edition of The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Why A Dog? was also cited in Holger Schott Syme's Three's Company: Alternative Histories of London's Theatres in the 1590s in Shakespeare Survey 2012, and more recently in Jeremy Black's 2019 England in the Age of Shakespeare.
- Ben Jonson's 'Villanous Guy' was cited in the 2012 Arden King John, edited by J.J.M. Tobin and Jesse M. Lander, and in Jonson, the Poetomachia, and the Reformation of Renaissance Satire: Purging Satire by Jay Symons.
- 'Surprised into Sonneteering': Shakespeare's Sonnets and the Gray's Inn Revels of 1594-5 was reviewed in The Year's Work in English Studies: Shakespeare (2021), and in Gabriel Egan's unpublished Not the Year's Work in English Studies for 2019.
