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Fellow of the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture, University of Southampton. Tolkien Society Education Officer. Facilitator for the Tolkien, Shakespeare, and Poetry Reading Groups hosted by the Central Library Southampton. Contact for Tolkien-related matters: educationATtolkiensocietyDOTorg. For all other enquiries: lynnevdaATclaraDOTcoDOTuk

Current Research Projects

  • Sixteenth-century politics in Shakespeare's The Tempest
  • The Significance of the Matter of England in The Lord of the Rings. Associated with this and with the course on Romances see the link to Bevis of Hampton
  • Poetry and its influence in The Lord of the Rings

Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture

For more information about the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture, School of Humanities, University of Southampton, including graduate seminars and conferences, see www.soton.ac.uk/cmrc/

See also http://www.soton.ac.uk/cmrc/research/fellows.html

Saturday 22 October 2011

New Article Online

My latest article 'Bevis and Tolkien; romancing the myth', has been published online only and may be viewed at http://www.lotrplaza.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=242515&FID=77&PR=3

It reveals close links between the famous fourteenth-century romance Bevis of Hampton and Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.

Courses: The thursday course on Milton has restarted. In December we will begin the course on Shakespeare and Marlowe - comparing their plays The Tempest and Dr. Faustus.


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