Tag Archives: biographies

Guest Post on “Stories of Great Names”

Posted on 27 April 2016 by Sørina Higgins

Today’s book summary is another guest post kindly written by the great CW scholar Richard Sturch. Richard was born in 1936 and holds a BA (Oxon) 1958, MA 1961, and D Phil 1970. He was ordained in the Church of … Continue reading →

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Who is this King? CW as Contemporary Commentator in “Henry VII”

Posted on 21 April 2016 by Sørina Higgins

Book Summary: Henry VII London: Arthur Barker, 1937 In the preface, CW says that the goal of biography is to distinguish between the subject’s “nature and his fortune.” I find that a difficult phrase to parse. I think in 21st-century … Continue reading →

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A Stupid Renaissance Woman: “Elizabeth I”

Posted on 16 March 2016 by Sørina Higgins

A Stupid Renaissance Woman: Elizabeth I Today I have another of CW’s biographies for your consideration, and, like the short plays I’ve been summarizing recently, this is the best of the bunch. If you read just one of the several … Continue reading →

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Our Hearts Are Restless: Guest Review of “Rochester” by Karl Persson

Posted on 20 January 2016 by Sørina Higgins

This book summary was written by my colleague Karl Persson of Signum University. Karl has an MA from the University of Regina with a focus on Early Modern literature (Milton) and a PhD in Old English literature from the University … Continue reading →

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Throw the King in the Pot of Stock

Posted on 26 August 2015 by Sørina Higgins

I greatly enjoyed James I. I’ll admit I skimmed through parts of it, and I still feel that I need to read a “real” biography of the king, without CW’s allusive and privatized style, but I did enjoy it. Continue reading →

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Perfection, Preservation, and Prerogative, or: Do you know any novels about Shakespeare?

Posted on 10 June 2015 by Sørina Higgins

Charles Williams Book Summary #27: Bacon (1933) Last week, I posted a summary of CW’s play A Myth of Francis Bacon. It was performed in 1932. The next year, CW decided to expand upon his work in that play and … Continue reading →

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