David Ellis is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Kent.

David Ellis

David Ellis is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Kent. He is the author of fifteen books the most recent of which was published this year (2022) and called The Comic in Shakespeare.

Articles by David Ellis

                        
                    Apr6
                
AuthorBookThe Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
		    David Ellis revisits Charles Dickens' fourth novel, The Old Curiosity Shop Dickens’s novels are full of members of the older generation…                Read More

                    Nov30
                
AuthorBookClassic of the Week: Nicholas Nickleby
		    David Ellis looks at Charles Dickens' third novel. Classic of the Week: Nicholas Nickleby If there were a prize for…                Read More

                    Oct19
                
AuthorBookShakespeare’s Titles
		    David Ellis finds fault with 'The Swan of Avon' Shakespeare's Titles As anyone who has ever put pen to paper…                Read More

                    Nov9
                
AuthorBookWhat if?
		    How might a different marriage have impacted on D.H. Lawrence's writing career? David Ellis considers a literary counterfactual. There are…                Read More

                    Nov9
                
AuthorBookCentenary of the publication of ‘Women in Love’
		    David Ellis celebrates the centenary of the publication of 'Women in Love', arguably D.H. Lawrence's best novel.                Read More

                    Feb7
                
AuthorBookDavid Ellis looks at The Pickwick Papers
		    David Ellis looks at Sam Weller, one of Dickens' earliest and most popular characters.                Read More

                    Jan23
                
AuthorBookDavid Ellis on Lost Masterpieces
		    David Ellis looks at the literary ones that got away                Read More

                    Dec16
                
AuthorBookJane Austen and Naval Warfare
		    David Ellis delves into the nautical background to 'Persuasion'                Read More

                    Aug3
                
AuthorBookLooking The Part: David Ellis casts an eye over our authors.
		    From a hot young poet to a playwright said to look `like a self-satisfied pork butcher’: David Ellis casts an eye over our authors.                Read More