Dr Charles Moseley

Dr C W R D Moseley MA, PhD, FSA, FEA, FRSA
Fellow, Tutor, and Director of Studies in English, Hughes Hall, Cambridge
Director of Studies in English, St Edmund's College, Cambridge
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Charles Moseley has written a large number of books and articles, mainly to do with his academic interests.

Recent published essays range from Elizabethan painting to nineteenth century printing technology and the topographical drawings of Alfred Wainwright.

In 1996 he published A Field Full of Folk, an account of his and his wife’s life in the then remote village on the edge of the Cambridgeshire Fens to which they moved in 1963. A ‘prequel’ to that book, on growing up in the Lancashire of the 1940s and 50s, may follow shortly.

One of Charles' most recent books, Cambridge Observed, written with the poet Clive Wilmer, is an anthology of impressions of Cambridge, and will one day be followed by a further anthology, Cambridge People.

Recent Articles:

‘What ish my nation?” (MacMorris to Llewellyn, Henry V ): England, Britain and the Other’, in TRANS: Internet-Zeitschrift fur Kultur- Wissenschaften, Institut zur Erforschung und Forderung Osterreichisches und internationaler Literaturprozesse, (2009).

“Whet-stone leasings of old Maundevile”: Reading the Travels in Early Modern England’, in Mandeville and Mandevillian Lore in Early Modern England, ed. Ladan Niayesh, (Manchester University Press, in the Press).

“The Groves of Eden, vanished now so long…’”:Landscape, Art and Ideology in picturing the Lost Domain’, in Milton Through the Centuries, ed. Peti Miklos and Fabiny Tibor, (Karoli Gaspar University, Budapest, in the Press).

'New things to speak of’: Money, Memory and Mandeville’s Travels in early modern England’, Yearbook of English Studies Special Issue on Early Modern Travel Fiction, ed. N. Das (in the Press).

‘Emblems and emblematics’, Cambridge World Shakespeare Encyclopaedia, ed. Bruce Smith (Cambridge University Press: In the Press).

”Action is Eloquence”: text, script, performance and the failure of criticism’, The Said and the Unsaid (University of Vlora, in the Press).

‘”How the Devil did he learn our Language?’, ESSE in Albania, University of Vlora, (in the Press)

Chapter 5, ‘The Making of the Last Plays’ in C. M. Alexander (ed.), the Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s Last Plays, (Cambridge University Press) (2009).

'A Portrait of Sir Christopher Hatton, Erasmus and an Emblem of Alciato: some questions.' The Antiquaries' Journal 86, (2006), pp. 373-9.

'Mandeville and the Amazons' in Jean de Mandeville in Europa. Neue Perspektiven in der Reiseliteraturforschung, hg. v. Ernst Bremer/Susanne Röhl (Mittelalter Studien 12), München: Fink Verlag, 2007.

' To arrive where we started and know the place for the first time', in (Ex)patriations: Papers from the first international conference, ed. Adina Ciugureana, Ovidus University, Romania (in the Press)

'"Whet-stone leasings of old Maundevile": Reading the Travels in Early Modern England', in Mandeville and Mandevillian Lore in Early Modern England, ed. Ladan Niayesh, (Manchester University Press (In the Press)

Books:

The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
(Available on Amazon)
(Penguin Books, 1983; Second, revised and extended, edition, 2005)
Chaucer: The Knight's Tale: a Critical Study (Penguin Books, 1986)
Chaucer: The Pardoner's Tale: A Critical Study (Penguin Books, 1987).
Reach: a Brief History of a Fenland Village (Daana Press, Cambridge: 1988; reprinted 1989; new edition 1999)
Shakespeare's History Plays, "Richard II" to "Henry V" : The Making of a King (Penguin Books, 1988; reprinted, 1990; US publication, 1991)
Shakespeare: Richard III: A Critical Study (Penguin Books, 1989)
A Century of Emblems: An Introduction to the Renaissance Emblem
(Scolar Press, 1989)
‘The Poetic Birth’: Milton's Poems of 1645 (Scolar Press, 1991)

Milton: The English Poems of 1645
(paperback edition of the above without the section on the Latin poems)

Penguin (UK) and Viking Penguin (USA), 1992)
A Field Full of Folk: A Village Elegy (Aurum Press, 1995)
Writers and their work: J. R. R. Tolkien (Northcote House, with the British Council, 1997)
Cambridge Observed: an Anthology (with Clive Wilmer). (Colt Books, 1998)
Reading Shakespeare’s History Plays (Bloomsbury.com, 2001)
Out of Reach - An elegy for a Cambridgeshire Village (Ostara Publishing, 2010)

eBooks:

A Very Brief Introduction to Theatre and Theatres of Shakespeare’s Time (Humanities-Ebooks, 2007)
Shakespeare’s Richard III: a Discussion (Humanities-Ebooks, 2007)
Shakespeare’s Tempest (Humanities-Ebooks, 2007)
Shakespeare’s King Henry IV (Humanities-Ebooks, 2007)



Chaucer: The Knight's Tale: a Critical Study          Chaucer: The Pardoner's Tale: A Critical Study          Milton: The English Poems of 1645          Shakespeare: Richard III: A Critical Study

Out of Reach
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
Cambridge Observed: an Anthology
‘The Poetic Birth’: Milton's Poems of 1645
A Century of Emblems: An Introduction to the Renaissance Emblem
A Field Full of Folk: A Village Elegy
Writers and their work: J. R. R. Tolkien

 

 

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