Charles Nicholl

Charles Nicholl’s collection of essays, Traces Remain, is published by Penguin.

In the LRB Archive:

• The Devil upon Two Sticks: Samuel Foote · 23 May 2013

  • Mr Foote’s Other Leg: Comedy, Tragedy and Murder in Georgian London by Ian Kelly

• The Other Thomas · 8 November 2012

• ‘The Battle of Anghiari’ · 26 April 2012

• Death in Florence · 23 February 2012

• Cardenio’s Ghost: The Bits Shakespeare Wrote · 2 December 2010

  • The Arden Shakespeare: Double Falsehood edited by Brean Hammond

• ‘A Naughty House’: Shakespeare’s Landlord · 24 June 2010

• Sticky Wicket: Colonel Fawcett’s Signet Ring · 28 May 2009

  • The Lost City of Z by David Grann

• Who was he?: Joe the Ripper · 7 February 2008

  • The Fox and the Flies: The World of Joseph Silver, Racketeer and Psychopath by Charles van Onselen

• The wind comes up out of nowhere: on the trail of Arthur Cravan · 9 March 2006

• Sneezing, Yawning, Falling: The Da Vinci Codices · 16 December 2004

• Scribblers and Assassins: The Crimes of Thomas Drury · 31 October 2002

• Venus in Blue Jeans: the Mona Lisa · 4 April 2002

  • Mona Lisa: The History of the World’s Most Famous Painting by Donald Sassoon

• The Last Years of Edward Kelley, Alchemist to the Emperor: Edward Kelly · 19 April 2001

• ‘A Being full of Witching’: the ‘poor half-harlot’ of Hazlitt’s affections · 18 May 2000

• Diary · 16 March 2000

• Field of Bones: the last journey of Thomas Coryate, the English fakir and legstretcher · 2 September 1999

• Screaming in the Castle: The Case of Beatrice Cenci: The story of Beatrice Cenci · 2 July 1998

• Nolanus Nullanus · 12 March 1992

  • Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair by John Bossy
  • The Elizabethan Secret Service by Alison Plowden
  • The Lord of Uraniborg: A Biography of Tycho Brahe by Victor Thoren

• Oliver’s Riffs · 25 July 1991

  • Talking It Over by Julian Barnes

• ‘Faustus’ and the Politics of Magic · 8 March 1990

  • Dr Faustus by Christopher Marlowe, edited by Roma Gill
  • Renaissance Magic and the Return of the Golden Age: The Occult Tradition and Marlowe, Jonson and Shakespeare by John Mebane
  • Robert Fludd and the End of the Renaissance by William Huffman
  • Prophecy and Power: Astrology in Early Modern England by Patrick Curry

• Great Instructor · 31 August 1989

  • Ben Jonson: A Life by David Riggs

• Canterbury Tale · 8 December 1988

  • Christopher Marlowe and Canterbury by William Urry, edited by Andrew Butcher
  • John Weever by E.A.J. Honigmann
  • Rare Sir William Davenant by Mary Edmond

• What Marlowe would have wanted · 26 November 1987

  • Faustus and the Censor by William Empson, edited by John Henry Jones

• Plague Fiction · 23 July 1987

  • The Darker Proof by Adam Mars-Jones and Edmund White

• The Literature Man · 25 June 1987

  • Cuts by Malcolm Bradbury
  • No, Not Bloomsbury by Malcolm Bradbury
  • The Last Romantics by Caroline Seebohm
  • The Magician’s Girl by Doris Grumbach

• Getting high · 19 March 1987

  • The Global Connection: The Crisis of Drug Addiction by Ben Whitaker

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