Harriman-Smith, James, ‘Authority of the Actor in the Eighteenth Century’, in Shakespeare and Authority: Citations, Conceptions and Constructions, ed. by Katie Halsey and Angus Vine (Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2018), pp. 249–64. Shakespeare rose to cultural prominence in England during the eighteenth century, his work and his myth nourished by new editions, essays, performances and more.…

Harriman-Smith J. Representing the Poor: Charles Lamb and the Vagabondiana. Studies in Romanticism 2015, 54(4), 551-568. Recent criticism has often paired Charles Lamb’s “a complaint of the Decay of Beggars in the Metropolis,” published in the character of Elia in the May 1822 issue of the London Magazine, with John Smith and Francis Douce’s Vagabondiana.…

Harriman-Smith J. Comédien–Actor–Paradoxe: The Anglo-French Sources of Diderot’s Paradoxe sur le comédien. Theatre Journal 2015, 67(1), 83-96. This essay locates Denis Diderot’s influential Paradoxe sur le comédien at the end of a complex set of Anglo-French exchanges on the art of acting. These exchanges, particularly with respect to the actor’s sensibility and creative powers, are…

Harriman-Smith J. Une tragédie possible: Corinne, ou l’Italie et Roméo et Juliette. Études françaises 2015, 51(1), 125-140. Le jeu de Corinne dans le rôle de Juliette constitue un épisode important dans le développement du roman de Germaine de Staël. La présentation de la pièce de Shakespeare souligne le caractère italien, l’intimité et le rôle du…

Harriman-Smith J. The Anti-Performance Prejudice of Shakespeare’s Eighteenth-Century Editors. Restoration and 18th Century Theatre Research 2014, 29(2), 47-61. On bookshelves, in ephemera, drama exists on the page. On bodies, in spaces filled with actors and spectators, drama exists on the stage. These two spheres, page and stage, are too easily distinguished and kept separate when…