Selected List of Publications

Books and Editions

1. To Everything A Season – The View from the Fen (Ludlow: Merlin Unwin Books, 2022)
2. Crossroad: A Pilgrimage of Unknowing (London: Darton Longman & Todd, 2022)
3. Hungry Heart Roaming (London: Eyewear Books, 2021)
4. Coming to Terms: Cambridge In and Out, (London: IndieBooks, 2017)
5. Latitude North, (London: IndieBooks, 2015)
6. Between the Tides: A Lancashire Youth (Ormskirk: Beaten Track Publishing, 2014)
7. Shakespeare’s King Henry IV (Humanities ebooks, 2007)
8. Shakespeare’s Tempest (Humanities ebooks, 2007)
9. A Very Brief Introduction to Theatre and theatres of Shakespeare’s Time (Humanities ebooks, 2007)
10. Shakespeare’s Richard III: a Discussion (Humanities ebooks, 2007)
11. Reading Shakespeare’s History Plays, (Bloomsbury.com, 2001)
12. Cambridge Observed: an Anthology (with Clive Wilmer). (Cambridge: Colt Books, 1998)
13. Writers and their work: J. R. R. Tolkien (Plymouth: Northcote House, with the British Council, 1997)
14. A Field Full of Folk: A Village Elegy (London: Aurum Press, 1995)
15. ‘The Poetic Birth’: Milton’s Poems of 1645 (Scolar Press, 1991); published in paperback, without the section on the Latin poems, as Milton: The English Poems of 1645, by Penguin (UK) and Viking Penguin (USA), 1992
16. A Century of Emblems: An Introduction to the Renaissance Emblem, (Scolar Press, 1989)
17. Shakespeare: Richard III: A Critical Study, (Penguin Books, 1989)
18. Shakespeare’s History Plays, ‘Richard II’ to ‘Henry V’ : The Making of a King, (Penguin Books, 1988; reprinted, 1990; US publication 1991; republished 2009 by Humanities Ebooks)
19. Reach: a Brief History of a Fenland Village, (Daana Press, Cambridge: 1988; reprinted 1989; new edition 1999)
20. Chaucer: The Pardoner’s Tale: A Critical Study, (Penguin Books, 1987)
21. Chaucer: The Knight’s Tale: a Critical Study, (Penguin Books, 1986)
22. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, (Penguin Books, 1983; Second, revised and extended, edition, 2005)
23. Editions, for school use, of Shakespeare

    Winter’s Tale (1966)

    King Henry IV, Part 2 (1966)

    King Henry IV, Part 1 (1967)

    King Richard III (1968)

    Othello (1974)

21. A revision of A. J. Wyatt, History of English Literature (1965)

Shorter Pieces

1. ‘ “Look on this picture, and on this”: or “words, words, words”? in L’Image Brisée XVIe-XVIIe siècles / Breaking the Image 16th-17th centuries, Agnès Lafont, Christian Belin and Nicholas Myers (eds.), Paris: Classiques Garnier, (In the Press, 2019).
2. ‘The Travels of Sir John Mandeville’, in the Routledge Encyclopaedia of Medieval Studies (2018)
3. ‘Ancestral Voices’, in  Literature and Cultural Memory, ed. Dragos Manea and Andreea Paris, (Amsterdam: Brill; in the Press)
4. ‘Thomas Campion’s “There is a Garden in her Face”: text, context, subtext’, in Leonor de Santa Barbara, ed. Flowers: Proceedings of the International Interdisciplinary conference, Nueva Universidad de Lisbõa, 2011 Húmus, for  Fundação para Ciéncia e a Tecnologia (In the Press)
5. Editorial essay as Guest Editor in Chaucer: Theory, Practice, Reading, Critical Survey, 29 (3),  2017.pp. 1-5
6. ‘Tu numeris elementa ligas’: The Consolation of Nature’s Numbers in Parlement of Foulys, in Chaucer: Theory, Practice, Reading: Critical Survey, 29 (3),  2017.pp. 86-113
7. Editorial essay as Guest Editor in Chaucer: Theory, Practice, Reading: Critical Survey, 30, (2),  2018.pp. 1-5
8. Emblems and emblematics’, Cambridge World Shakespeare Encyclopaedia, ed. Bruce Smith (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016)
9. (Joint Author) ‘The Case for Reclassifying the Hythe, Reach, Cambridgeshire as a site of historic and archaeological significance’, Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, 2016, pp. 61-4
10. ‘Shakespeare, ‘The Spanish Armada and the Mississippi’,  Early Modern Culture On Line, 6 (2015) pp.10-21
11. ‘Mandeville’s Travels and the Moral Geography of the Medieval World’, Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, University of Technology, Sydney, epress, Vol 11 n°2, (2015)
12. ‘Speaking pictures: mediaeval religious art and its viewers’, in Stephen Prickett (ed.) The Edinburgh Companion to the Bible, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014) pp. 175-194
13. ‘Forging the key of remembrance’: books, cultures and memory’ in Michaela Irimia and (ed.) Literature and the Long Modernity, Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft (IFAVL), Volume 176 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2014) pp.11-24
14. ‘What’s in a name? The Theatre of 1576’, Early Modern Culture Online, 5  (2014) pp.1-10
15. Judicious, sharp spectators? Form, pattern and audience in early modern theatre: some problems’, Cahiers Elizabethains, 85 (Spring 2014), pp.8-20
16. ‘Res Publica: a Matter of Concern’, in Luis Manuel A. V. Bernardo, Leonor Santa Barbara, and Luis Andrade, (eds.), Representações da República, (Lisbon: Húmus, for  Fundação para Ciéncia e a Tecnologia, n.d [2013]), pp.29-39
17. ‘“Whet-stone leasings of old Maundevile”: Reading the Travels in Early Modern England’, pp. 28-50, in Mandeville and Mandevillian Lore in Early Modern England, ed. Ladan Niayesh, (Manchester University Press, 2011)
18. ‘New things to speak of’: Money, Memory and Mandeville’s Travels in early modern England’, Yearbook of English Studies Special Issue: Early Modern Travel Fiction, ed. N. Das, 41.1 (2011), pp.5-20
19. ‘”The Groves of Eden, vanished now so long…’: Landscape, Art and Ideology in picturing the Lost Domain’, in Gábor Ittzés and Miklós Péti(eds) Milton Through the Centuries,   L’Harmattan-KGRE, 2011)
20. ‘ “How the Devil did he learn our Language?” Richard III and his languages’, English Studies in Albania, I (i) 2011, pp.7-22
21. ‘“Action is Eloquence”: text, script, performance and the failure of criticism’, in A. Panajoti (ed.), The Said and the Unsaid: Papers on Language, Literature and Cultural Studies, (University of Vlora Ismail Qemali, Albania, 2011)
22. ‘Introducing Mr Shakespeare, or What’s in a Title Page?’, trans. T. Ozawa,   in  Ozawa, T. et al., .A Kaleidoscope of Literature: English and American Literatures, and their Surrounding Areas, (Tokyo: Renga Shobo  Shinsha. (New Brick Book Shop), 2010), pp.266-311
23. ‘…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, Ovidius University, Romania, 2009)
24. ‘The Literary and dramatic context of the Late Plays’, Chapter 5 in The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s Last Plays, ed. C. M. Alexander, (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
25. ‘ “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 Főrderung Ősterreichisches und internationaler Literaturprozesse,  (2009)
26. Waiting for the death of Little Nell: Gas, flong, and the nineteenth century novel’, TRANS: Internet-Zeitschrift fur Kultur-Wissenschaften,  Institut zur Erforschung und Főrderung Ősterreichisches und internationaler Literaturprozesse,  16, (2006) http://www.inst.at/trans/16Nr/09_6/9_6inhalt16.htm
27. ‘A Portrait of Sir Christopher Hatton, Erasmus and an Emblem of Alciato: some questions.’ The Antiquaries’ Journal 86, (2006), pp. 373-9
28. ‘Astraea in the Alps’, Classical Association Newsletter, 35 (December, 2006)
29.  ‘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)
30. ‘Get thee up into a high Mountain’: The English Lake District as Virtual Landscape’, TRANS: Internet-Zeitschrift fur Kultur-Wissenschaften, Institut zur Erforschung und Főrderung Ősterreichisches und internationaler Literaturprozesse. (2004)  http://www.inst.at/trans/15Nr/05_10/05_10inhalt15.htm
31. William Shakespeare’, in Continuum Encyclopaedia of British Literature, ed. S. Serafin, (Continuum, New York, 2002)
32. Foreword in O. B. Duane, Chivalry, (Brockhampton Press, 1997)
33. ‘Sir John Mandeville’, article in The Chaucer Encyclopaedia, Gen.Ed. Ruggiers (University of Oklahoma Press, in the Press)
34. ‘What shall we do with the Seventeenth Century?’, Editorial Essay, in ‘Writing/Revolution: The Seventeenth Century ‘, Critical Survey Special Issue, 5 no 3 (1993)
35. ‘Les mondes des Voyages de Jean de Mandeville’, in  Résurgences: recherches aux sources et aux confluents de la littérature, 2(1),’L’écriture et la voie’, (Spring, 1993)
36. ‘Portia’s music and the naughty world’, in Loughrey and Cookson, (eds.) The Merchant of Venice’: Critical Essays (Longmans, 1992)
37. Editorial essay in special issue ‘Shakespeare and Tragedy’, Critical Survey, 3(2), May 1991
38. ‘Andrew Willett’s Emblem Book: a reconsideration’, Yearbook of English Studies, 20 (1990), pp. 182-207
39. ‘British Library Additional MS 24189: some curious ships’, Mariner’s Mirror, 76(2), (1990) pp. 176-77
40. ‘Innogen’s Bedroom’, Notes and Queries, 235, June 1990,  pp.197-8
41. ‘’A Sweetnesse readie penn’d’: Art, Love and Devotion  in Herbert’s The Temple, in The Metaphysical Poets: Critical Essays, ed. Loughrey and Cookson, (Longmans, 1990), pp.58-68
42. ‘The Pardoner versus his Tale’, in ‘The Pardoner’s Tale’: Critical Essays , ed. Loughrey and Cookson, (Longmans, 1990), pp.46-54
43. ‘Speaking Pictures: visual symbol in Antony and Cleopatra’, in Antony and Cleopatra: Critical Essays , ed.  Loughrey and Cookson, (Longmans, 1990), pp.84-92
44.  ‘A surviving Fenland lighter’, Mariner’s Mirror, 76(3) (1990), pp.271-81
45.  `This Blessed Plot: the Garden Scene in Richard II’, in  Loughrey and Cookson, (eds),  ‘Richard II’: Critical Essays,  (London, 1989), pp. 94-104
46. ‘The General Prologue as a prologue’, in Loughrey and Cookson (eds), ‘The Canterbury Tales’: Critical Essays, (London, 1989), pp. 105-18
47. ‘’Men were deceivers ever’‘, in Loughrey and Cookson  (eds.),  ‘Much Ado about Nothing’: Critical Essays, (London, 1989), pp.43-52
48. ‘Of Centaurs and Minotaurs: Vaenius’ emblem Nihil  Silentio Utilius and Alciato’s  Non Vulganda Consilia’,  Bulletin du Bibliophile, 1989, pp.324-330
49. ‘A note on possible acrostics in Paradise Lost’, Notes and Queries, 233 (June 1988), pp.162-3
50. ‘MacBeth’s Free Fall’, in Loughrey and Cookson (eds), ‘Macbeth’: Critical Essays, (London, 1988), pp.22-34
51. ‘Trial and Judgement in King Lear ‘, in Loughrey and Cookson (eds), ‘King Lear’: Critical Essays  (London, 1988), pp. 65-75
52. ‘The Masque unmask’d: spectacle in The Tempest’, in  Loughrey and Cookson (eds), ‘The Tempest’: Critical Essays (London, 1988), pp.114-126
53. ‘Cleopatra’s Prudence: three notes on the use of emblems in Antony and Cleopatra’, Shakespeare Jahrbuch (West), 1986, pp. 119-137
54. ‘Behaim’s Globe and Mandeville’s Travels’, Imago Mundi,  XXXIII, (1981), pp. 89-93
55. ‘The Computer and the School Library’, Conference, XVII, No.1, (1980), p.11
56. ‘A reading of Donne’s Holy Sonnet XIV’, Archiv für das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, CCXVII, (1980), pp. 103-8
57. ‘A Brief Architectural Guide to the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Swaffham Prior’, (1980, published by the Parochial  Church Council, Swaffham Prior, Cambridgeshire)
58. ‘Some suggestions about the writing of The Squire’s Tale’, Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, CCXII, (1975), pp.124-7
59. The Availability of Mandeville’s Travels in England’, The Library, XXX, No.1, (1975), pp.125-133
60. ‘The Metamorphoses of Sir John Mandeville’, The Yearbook of English Studies, IV, (1974), pp.5-25
61. ‘Chaucer, Sir John Mandeville and the Alliterative  Revival: an hypothesis concerning relationships’, Modern Philology,  LXXII,  No.2. (1974), pp.182-4
62. ‘Richard Head’s The English Rogue’, The Yearbook of  English Studies, I, (1971), pp.102-107
63. ‘Sir John Mandeville’s Visit to the Pope; the Implications of an interpolation, Neophilologus, LIV, No.1  (1970), pp.77-80
64. ‘The Lost Play of Mandeville’, The Library, XXV, No.1 (1970), pp.46- 49
65. ‘Stitched ships and Loadstone Rocks’, Notes and Queries,  213, (September, 1968), p.323
66. ‘Stitched ships and Loadstone Rocks’, Notes and Queries,  213, (September, 1968), p.323

Reviews

1. J. Lyon. ‘The Merchant of Venice’: Harvester New CriticalIntroductions to Shakespeare , Critical Survey , I No 2 (1989), pp 218-220.
2. K. J. Höltgen, Aspects of the Emblem: Studies in the English Emblem and the European Context (Kassel, 1986), in   Modern Language Review, 85(1) (1990) pp.147-8
3. P. M. Daly, The English Emblem and the Continental Tradition, (New York, 1988), in Modern Language Review 85(1) (1990) pp.145-6
4. P. M. Daly et al., (eds), The English Emblem Tradition, Vol. 1, (Toronto, 1988), in Modern Language Review 85(2), 1990, pp. 407-8
5. J. Manning (ed.,) The Emblems of Thomas Palmer: ‘Two Hundred Poosees’: Sloane MS 4794 (New York, 1988),   in Modern Language Review   85(3) (1990), pp.689-90.
6. The Art of the Emblem: Essays in Honor of Karl Josef Höltgen. Ed. by Michael Bath, John Manning, and Alan R. Young (AMS Studies in the Emblem, 9) New York: 1993.
7. Emblematica; An Interdisciplinary journal for Emblem Studies Summer Vol. 6 No.1. (New York: AMS Press.), Yearbook of English Studies, 25 No 1 (Jan 1995)
8. Michael Bath, Speaking Pictures: English Emblem Books and Renaissance Culture, (London, 1994), in Modern Language Review 90.4 (1995) pp.976-7
9. P. M. Daly et al., (eds), The English Emblem Tradition, Vol. 2 (Toronto, 1993), in Yearbook of English Studies, 27 (1), (1996), pp.267-8.
10. Elizabeth See Wilson, Achille Bocchi and the Emblem Book As Symbolic Form (Cambridge, New York and Melbourne, 1994), in Modern Language Review, 92 (2) (1997)
11. Ayers L. Bagley, Edward M. Griffin, Austin J. Maclean, The Telling Image (AMS Press, New York, 1996), in Modern Language Review, 94 (3), (1999)
12. Alan R. Young (ed.), The English Emblem Tradition, Vol. 5, Henry Peacham’s Manuscript Emblem Books (Toronto, 1998), in Yearbook of English Studies, (In the Press)
13. Emblematica: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Emblem Studies. Vol. 8. No.2. Winter 1994. Ed. By Peter M. Daly, Daniel S. Russell, and John Manning. New York: AMS Press. 1997; Vol.9 No 1. Summer 1995, (Modern Language Review, 94.3 (1999)
14. The English Emblem Tradition, Vol. IV, ed. Peter M. Daly et al., (Toronto, Buffalo, N.Y., and London: Toronto University Press 1998.
15. The English Emblem Tradition Vol. V, ed. Alan R. Young et al., (Toronto, Buffalo, N.Y., and London: Toronto University Press 1998);
16. Emblematica: an interdisciplinary journal for Emblem Studies, 9.2 (Winter, 1995) ed. Peter M. Daly, Daniel S. Russell, and J. Manning, in Modern Language Review, 96.3 (2001) pp. 786-9
17. Deviceful Settings: The English Renaissance Emblem and its Contexts, ed. Michael Bath and Daniel Russell. (AMS Studies in the Emblem 13) New York: AMS Press, 1999, Yearbook of English Studies, 32 (2002) pp.288-90.
18. Review of Elizabeth MacGregor, The Ice Child (New York and London, (2001), Polar Record, (2002).
19. Review of Martin Holdgate: Penguins and Mandarins: Memories of Natural and Unnatural History, (The Memoir Club, Spennymoor, 2003) in Cambridge (2004)
20. Review of Wayne Davies: Writing geographical Exploration: James and the Northwest Passage, (University of Calgary Press, 2003), Polar Record, 41, Issue 02, (April 2005), pp 168-171
21. Review of Richard Barber, The Holy Grail, (Allen Lane, London, 2004),The Antiquaries’ Journal 85 (2005)
22. John Hines: Voices in the Past: English Literature and Archaeology (D. S. Brewer, Woodbridge, 2004), The Antiquaries’ Journal, 85 (2005)
23. M. C. Seymour, The Egerton Version of Mandeville’s Travels, EETS 2010, Medium Aevum LXXXIII, (2014) p.356.

Keynote Speaker at Conferences

1. Portugal, New University of Lisbon, September 2011 and May 2014
2. Romania, University of Bucharest, November 2011, November 2012
3. Szeged, Hungary, September 2013