Charles Nicholl

Charles Nicholl, though writing a book about Dr Johnson’s Jamaican valet, Francis Barber, will travel to India at the beginning of the year to visit the tomb of Doubting Thomas and write about it for the LRB.

In the LRB Archive:

• 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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