Deirdre Serjeantson
Articles by Deirdre Serjeantson
2019
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The King’s Man
As with the Easter Rising, there was in the early modern period more than one vision in play of Ireland’s destiny. Walter Quin, born in…
2018
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Irish History
Talking Heads
As recently as 1996, an English editor of an edition of a seventeenth century play wrote in a footnote to explain to students a puzzling…
2017
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World Literature
Love and Other Questions
Francesco Petrarcha bequeathed to the Renaissance a particular way of writing about love. Shakespeare’s Romeo is just one of his disciples. But love was not…
2016
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World Literature
Love and Other Matters
Francesco Petrarcha bequeathed to the Renaissance a particular way of writing about love. Shakespeare’s Romeo is just one of his disciples. But love was not…
2015
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Irish History
The King’s Man
Walter Quin was a Dubliner who became attached to the Scottish and later English court of King James VI and I. He devoted his considerable…
2013
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World Literature
A Single Volume Bound by Love
Clive James’s new Dante is the highly effective work of a poet who has absorbed tradition, who is aware of the demands of form, whose…