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Attributing Authorship to Bodleian MS Douce 171: A Seventeenth-Century Comedy by Arthur Wilson (2022)
Journal Article
Blank, D. (2022). Attributing Authorship to Bodleian MS Douce 171: A Seventeenth-Century Comedy by Arthur Wilson. The Library, 23(3), 346-372. https://doi.org/10.1093/library/fpac035

This article argues that the anonymous dramatic fragment at the end of Bodleian Library, MS Douce 171, recently catalogued as ‘Comedy of Stella and Alexis’, is an authorial draft written by the seventeenth-century playwright Arthur Wilson (1595–1652)... Read More about Attributing Authorship to Bodleian MS Douce 171: A Seventeenth-Century Comedy by Arthur Wilson.

Debating Drama in the Early Modern University: John Case, Aristotle's 'Politics', and a Previously Unknown Disputation (2022)
Journal Article
Blank, D. (2022). Debating Drama in the Early Modern University: John Case, Aristotle's 'Politics', and a Previously Unknown Disputation. Journal of the History of Ideas, 83(3), 387-406. https://doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2022.0019

This article presents evidence of a previously unknown seventeenth-century disputation at the University of Oxford on the controversial subject of theatrical performance. The evidence appears in the student notebook of Edmund Leigh, who received his... Read More about Debating Drama in the Early Modern University: John Case, Aristotle's 'Politics', and a Previously Unknown Disputation.