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Douglas Clark

is a researcher based in Oxford, UK. His work on early modern English drama and poetry has recently appeared in the journals Renaissance Drama, Studies in Philology, and Women’s Writing. His first book, The Will in English Renaissance Drama, will be published with Cambridge University Press in 2025.
Welcome to the Banquet
The title of the manuscript in a elaborate loopy italic hand
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Welcome to the Banquet

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Fellow Douglas Clark delves into the contents of the previously overlooked manuscript, Thomas Grocer’s Banquet of Sweetmeats.

Slippery thoughts in "The Winter's Tale"
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Slippery thoughts in "The Winter's Tale"

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“Leontes puts a new spin on an idea familiar to those living in Shakespeare’s time: that one could fish for people,” writes Douglas Clark.