About Me

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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

Tuesday, 14 June 2011

14th Century English Verse Romances

A website for Bevis of Hampton is under construction

English Drama before Shakespeare

Includes Biblical and Morality plays and Tudor Interludes

My research in this area is included below.

Women in Medieval English Literature

Includes Margaret Paston, Margery Kempe and fictional women in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, in medieval religious drama and in the Tudor Interludes (secular plays before Shakespeare)

Middle English Literature: Chaucer


Anglo-Saxon Literature


Sunday, 29 May 2011

Forthcoming Course - Paradise Lost

On 16th June the next course on Milton's Paradise Lost will begin. The whole text, with footnotes can be found online at http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/contents/index.shtml - scroll down for Paradise Lost.

Further details can be obtained via the email address lynnevdaATclaraDOTcoDOTuk or via the contact addresses on the posters in Southampton Central Library

The course on the 14th century English Verse Romances ended last Thursday. And has led to the creation of a separate blog on Bevis of Hampton.




Wednesday, 18 May 2011

British Library Archive

This blog has been chosen to be added to the British Library's Archive of web and blog sites. http://www.webarchive.org.uk/