Peter Collister has published many essays in Europe and America on a range of nineteenth-century British and French authors. The author of Writing the Self: Henry James and America, he has edited the award-winning volumes, The Complete Writings of Henry James on Art and Drama, James’s autobiographical works, A Small Boy and Others, Notes of a Son and Brother and The Middle Years, as well as The American Scene. His critical biography of James was published in 2023 and he is currently preparing for publication a scholarly edition of James’s biography, William Wetmore Story and his Friends.

• .- 1: Shakespeare and James: drama and the Victorian theatre.- 2: James and Charles Kean’s historic production of Henry VIII.- 3: ‘A modern invocation’ of King John: James’s fiction of the 1890s.- 4: ‘The Birthplace’ and the anonymous artist.- 5:  A ‘theatre of others’: alternative Shakespearean performances.- 6: ‘We are mocked with art’: James, authorship and the torment of The Tempest.

Peter Collister has published many essays in Europe and America on a range of nineteenth-century British and French authors. The author of Writing the Self: Henry James and America, he has edited the award-winning volumes, The Complete Writings of Henry James on Art and Drama, James’s autobiographical works, A Small Boy and Others, Notes of a Son and Brother and The Middle Years, as well as The American Scene. His critical biography of James was published in 2023 and he is currently preparing for publication a scholarly edition of James’s biography, William Wetmore Story and his Friends.

• .- 1: Shakespeare and James: drama and the Victorian theatre.- 2: James and Charles Kean’s historic production of Henry VIII.- 3: ‘A modern invocation’ of King John: James’s fiction of the 1890s.- 4: ‘The Birthplace’ and the anonymous artist.- 5:  A ‘theatre of others’: alternative Shakespearean performances.- 6: ‘We are mocked with art’: James, authorship and the torment of The Tempest.

Peter Collister has published many essays in Europe and America on a range of nineteenth-century British and French authors. The author of Writing the Self: Henry James and America, he has edited the award-winning volumes, The Complete Writings of Henry James on Art and Drama, James’s autobiographical works, A Small Boy and Others, Notes of a Son and Brother and The Middle Years, as well as The American Scene. His critical biography of James was published in 2023 and he is currently preparing for publication a scholarly edition of James’s biography, William Wetmore Story and his Friends.

• .- 1: Shakespeare and James: drama and the Victorian theatre.- 2: James and Charles Kean’s historic production of Henry VIII.- 3: ‘A modern invocation’ of King John: James’s fiction of the 1890s.- 4: ‘The Birthplace’ and the anonymous artist.- 5:  A ‘theatre of others’: alternative Shakespearean performances.- 6: ‘We are mocked with art’: James, authorship and the torment of The Tempest.