Meat, Murder, Malfeasance, Medicine and Martyrdom

Auteur

Graham Holderness is a writer and critic who has published, as author or editor, more than sixty books, many on Shakespeare, and hundreds of chapters and articles of criticism, theory and theology. His more recent work has pioneered methods of critical-creative writing, exemplified by Nine Lives of William Shakespeare (Bloomsbury/Arden Shakespeare, 2011); Tales from Shakespeare: Creative Collisions (Cambridge University Press, 2014); and Re-writing Jesus: Christ in 20th Century Fiction and Film (Bloomsbury, 2014): Samurai Shakespeare (EER, 2021). He has published several works of fiction: The Prince of Denmark (University of Hertfordshire Press, 2001; EER, 2021); Ecce Homo (Bloomsbury, 2014); Black and Deep Desires: William Shakespeare Vampire Hunter (Top Hat Books, 2014); and Meat, Murder, Malfeasance, Medicine and Martyrdom: Smithfield Stories (EER, 2019).

Texte du rabat

This remarkable book reveals the sensational, historical and personal stories of the physical, cultural and psychological territory of London's Smithfield.