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My research interests lie predominantly in the field of early modern literature. In particular, I am interested in the pre-Stuart foundations of the verse libel and the legal machinations of the early modern state in licensing, censoring and banning texts in the pursuit of state-sponsored national narratives. I am also interested in the relationship between the British nations before, during and following the Reformation; their respective European links; and resultant literary representations of English and Scottish national identities.

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European Unions: The Spanish Wife and the Scottish Widow in Shakespeare and Fletcher's Henry VIII and Ford's Perkin Warbeck

Published in 2017 in Early Modern Literary Studies and available here:

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Slanderisation and Censure-ship: When Good Texts Went Bad in Early Modern England

Published in 2017 in the Journal of the Northern Renaissance and available here:

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“What think you of this present state?”: Representations of Scotland and Scottish union in Robert Greene’s The Scottish History of James the Fourth and John Ford’s Perkin Warbeck

Published in 2016 in Early Modern Literary Studies and available here:

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The Legacy of the Will of Henry VIII in John Webster’s Sir Thomas Wyatt and Thomas Heywood’s If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody

Published in 2013 in the Journal of the Northern Renaissance and available here:

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