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Van Es, Dr Bart
Job Title: Fellow and University Lecturer
College: St Catherine's
Period/ Subject: Early Modern
Email address: bart.vanes@ell.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests:
My research interests include sixteenth and seventeenth century historical prose and poetry, the writing of Edmund Spenser, and the reception of classical texts in the early modern period. I am currently working on a book on Shakespeare which focuses on his connections with actors and acting companies.
Teaching Areas:
Literature 1500-1800, with special interest in Shakespeare and Spenser. My lecture series titles for the Faculty include ‘The Materiality of Texts: Manuscript, Print, and Edition’, ‘Renaissance Literature and Culture: More to Milton’, ‘Shakespeare in Company’, and ‘Historians in Verse’.
Recent Publications:
Books
Spenser’s Forms of History (OUP, 2002)
Editor, A Critical Companion to Spenser Studies (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2005)
Forthcoming:
Shakespeare in Company (Commissioned by OUP for publication in 2012)
Articles
“Priuie to his Counsell and Secret Meaning’: Spenser and Political Prophecy’, English Literary Renaissance, 30 (2000)
‘Spenser’s First Annotator’, Notes & Queries, n.s. 48 (September 2001)
‘Discourses of Conquest: The Faerie Queene, The Society of Antiquaries, and A View of the Present State of Ireland’, English Literary Renaissance, 32 (2002)
“The Stream and Current of Time’: Land, Myth, and History in the Works of Edmund Spenser’, Spenser Studies (2004)
‘John Dixon’, New entry for DNB (OUP, 2004)
Chapter on ‘Pastoral’, in Writers of the English Renaissance, ed. Patrick Cheney, Andrew Hadfield, and Garrett Sullivan (OUP, 2005)
‘Introduction’ and chapter on ‘Poetry and Prose Before 1590’ in A Critical Companion to Spenser Studies (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2005)
‘Samuel Daniel’ in Encyclopaedia of British Literature, ed. David Kastan (OUP, 2006)
‘Company Man’, Times Literary Supplement (February 2nd, 2007)
‘Michael Drayton, Literary History, and Historians in Verse,’ Review of English Studies 59 (2008)
Forthcoming
‘Spenser and History’, in The Oxford Handbook of Edmund Spenser (forthcoming OUP, 2009)
‘Later Appropriations’, in The Oxford Handbook of Holinshed, ed. Ian Archer, Felicity Heal, and Paulina Kewes (forthcoming OUP, 2011)
Other Information:
Reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement and member of the International Spenser Society executive.
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