Professor Robert Maslen
- Honorary Senior Research Fellow (School of Critical Studies)
email:
Robert.Maslen@glasgow.ac.uk
R408 Level 4, English Literature, 4 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QH
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0265-5049Research interests
Research interests
- Fantasy/the Fantastic
- Early Modern Literature and Drama
Biography
In 2015 Rob Maslen founded the MLitt English Literature: Fantasy, the first graduate programme in the world specifically dedicated to the study of fantasy and the fantastic.
A Senior Lecturer in English Literature since 1999, he is the author of three books: Elizabethan Fictions (1997), Shakespeare and Comedy (2005), and The Shakespeare Handbook (2008), and has edited Sir Philip Sidney’s Apology for Poetry (2002) and Mervyn Peake’s Collected Poems (2008), as well as co-editing Thomas Dekker/Thomas Middleton’s News from Gravesend for the Oxford Middleton (2007) and Mervyn Peake’s Complete Nonsense (2011).
He has written many essays on early modern literature and twentieth-century fantasy and science fiction, with subjects ranging from fake translations to books and reading in Japanese anime.
He also blogs at The City of Lost Books.
He is a Fellow of the English Association and has held teaching appointments at Christ Church, Oxford; Royal Holloway, University of London; the University of Exeter; Dartmouth College, NH; the University of St Thomas, MN; and Lund University.
Publications
Number of items: 112.
2021
Maslen, R. (2021) The centre for fantasy and the fantastic at the University of Glasgow: Practising the impossible. Fantastika Journal, 5(1), pp. 13-16.
2020
Maslen, R. (2020) The sinking city. In: Barclay, H. and Hehir, S. (eds.) Stories from Home: An Anthology of Stories and Poems. Garmoran Publishing, pp. 115-119. ISBN 9781913510152
2019
Maslen, R. (2019) The decay of exemplarity in Troilus and Cressida. In: Mitsi, E. (ed.) Troilus and Cressida: A Critical Reader. Series: Arden Early Modern Drama Guides. Bloomsbury: London, pp. 107-128. ISBN 9781350014190
2017
Maslen, R.W. (2017) Elizabethan popular romance and the popular novel. In: Keymer, T. (ed.) Prose Fiction from the Origins of Print to 1750. Series: The Oxford history of the novel in English (1). Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780199580033
Maslen, R. (2017) Fantastic economies: Flann O’Brien and James Stephens. In: Borg, R., Fagan, P. and McCourt, J. (eds.) Flann O'Brien: Problems with Authority. Cork University Press: Cork, pp. 136-151. ISBN 9781782052302
2016
Maslen, R. (2016) Armour that doesn't work: an anti-meme in Medieval and Renaissance Romance. In: King, A. and Woodcock, M. (eds.) Medieval into Renaissance: Essays for Helen Cooper. D. S. Brewer: Cambridge, pp. 35-54. ISBN 9781843844327
2015
Maslen, R. (2015) The City of Lost Books. [Website]
Maslen, R. (2015) One man's meat: The Changeling. Around the Globe(59), pp. 24-27.
Maslen, R. (2015) Whose shoes?: Measure for Measure. Around the Globe, 60, pp. 18-19.
2014
Maslen, R. (2014) The strangeness of King John. Essays in Criticism, 64(3), pp. 247-265. (doi: 10.1093/escrit/cgu012)
Maslen, R. (2014) Marlowe's ghost: The Second Report of Doctor John Faustus. In: Olsen, K.E. and Veenstra, J.R. (eds.) Airy Nothings: Imagining the Otherworld of Faerie from the Middle Ages to the Age of Reason. Brill: Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 1-23. ISBN 9789004245518
Maslen, R. (2014) The Love Bug: Antony and Cleopatra. Around the Globe, 57, pp. 22-23.
2013
Maslen, R. (2013) Mervyn Peake, the poet of Gormenghast. In: Winnington, G.P. (ed.) Miracle Enough: Papers on the Works of Mervyn Peake. Cambridge Scholars Press: Newcastle, UK, pp. 127-138. ISBN 9781443844116
Maslen, R. (2013) Robert Greene. In: Hadfield, A. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of English Prose, 1500-1640. Series: Oxford handbooks of literature. Oxford University Press: Corby, UK, pp. 188-203. ISBN 9780199580682
2012
Maslen, R. (2012) Fantasies of Complicity in the Second World War. In: Piette, A. and Rawlinson, M. (eds.) The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century British and American War Literature. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 516-523. ISBN 9780748638741
Maslen, R. (2012) Fantasies of the familiar in The Taming of the Shrew. Around the Globe, 50, pp. 10-12.
Maslen, R. (2012) Sir Philip Sidney. In: Stewart, A. and Sullivan, G. (eds.) The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature. Series: Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature, 3. Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford, pp. 883-890. ISBN 9781405194495
Maslen, R. (2012) States of exile. Other. Hindmarsh, Adelaide, Australia.
Maslen, R. (2012) Towards a fantastic history of the Twentieth Century. In: Hart, P. (ed.) Studies in English: Proceedings from the Sixth International IDEA Conference. Istanbul Kültür University: Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 23-40. ISBN 9786054233922
2011
Maslen, R.W. (2011) Magical journeys in sixteenth-century prose fiction. Yearbook of English Studies, 41(1), pp. 35-50.
Maslen, R. and Winnington, G.P. (Eds.) (2011) Complete Nonsense by Mervyn Peake. Carcanet: Manchester, UK. ISBN 9781847770875
Maslen, R. (2011) The Early English novel in Antwerp: the impact of Jan van Doesborch. In: Bayer, G. and Klitgård, E. (eds.) Narrative Developments from Chaucer to Defoe. Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture (11). Routledge: New York and Abingdon, pp. 136-157. ISBN 9780415879484
Maslen, R. (2011) Lying about the past, inventing the future: Hope Mirrlees's 'Lud-in-the Mist' as fantastic history. In: Dobson, M. and Woodall, J. (eds.) Where We Fell to Earth: Writing for Peter Conrad. (Privately Published), pp. 224-234.
Maslen, R.W. (2011) Lodge’s Glaucus and Scilla and the Conditions of Catholic Authorship in Elizabethan England. In: Whitney, C.C. (ed.) Thomas Lodge. Series: University Wits Series. Ashgate: London, pp. 409-432. ISBN 9780754628750
Maslen, R.W. (2011) Mervyn Peake’s Illustrations for Rhymes Without Reason (1944). PN Review, 37(5), pp. 24-26.
Maslen, R.W. (2011) Sense and nonsense: All’s well that ends well. Around the Globe, 47, pp. 10-12.
2010
Maslen, R. (2010) Prose fiction: realism. In: Braden, G., Cummings, R. and Gillespie, S. (eds.) Oxford History of Literary Translation in English: 1550-1660. Series: Oxford History of Literary Translation in English. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 347-357. ISBN 9780199246212
Maslen, R.W. (2010) Peake at Southport: published and unpublished verses from the seafront, 1942. Peake Studies, 12(1), pp. 3-24.
Maslen, R.W. and Taylor, G. (2010) News from Gravesend: sent to nobody. In: Taylor, G. and Lavagnino, J. (eds.) Thomas Middleton : The Collected Works. Oxford University Press, pp. 128-148. ISBN 9780199580538
2009
Maslen, R.W. (2009) Dreams, freedom of speech, and the demonic affiliations of Robin Goodfellow. Journal of the Northern Renaissance, 1, pp. 129-144.
Maslen, R.W. (2009) Imagining the past, remembering the future. Journal of the Northern Renaissance, 2, i-x.
Maslen, R.W. (2009) Introduction: political theatre from Greece to Glasgow. In: Fleeto [by Paddy Cunneen]. Fairplay Press, pp. 5-9. ISBN 9781906220280
Maslen, R.W. (2009) Macbeth: a Scottish play. Around the Globe, 44, pp. 2-3.
Maslen, R.W. (2009) Response to a letter from Ursula K. Le Guin. Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, 37(104), p. 8.
Maslen, R.W. (2009) Where even trees may speak their minds: As you like it. Around the Globe, 41, pp. 4-5.
Maslen, R.W. (2009) William Baldwin and the Tudor imagination. In: Pincombe, M. and Shrank, C. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Literature, 1485-1603. Series: Oxford Handbooks. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 291-306. ISBN 9780199205882
2008
Maslen, R.W. (2008) Fantasies of war in Peake's uncollected verse. Peake Studies, 10(4), pp. 5-23.
Schmidt, M. and Maslen, R.W. (Eds.) (2008) The Shakespeare Handbook. Quercus: London, UK. ISBN 9781847246158
Maslen, R.W. (2008) A coomonwealth of merriment: The merry wives of Windsor. Around the Globe, 38, pp. 8-10.
Maslen, R.W. (2008) The healing dialogues of Dr Bullein. Yearbook of English Studies, 38(1-2), pp. 119-135.
Maslen, R.W. (2008) Lightness, love and death: light tragedy: Romeo and Juliet. In: Lee, M. (ed.) Shakespearean Criticism. Gale Group: Detroit, USA. ISBN 9780787688448
Maslen, R.W. (2008) Robert Greene and the uses of time. In: Melnikoff, K. and Gieskes, E. (eds.) Writing Robert Greene: Essays on England's First Notorious Professional Writer. Ashgate: Aldershot, UK, pp. 157-188. ISBN 9780754657019
Maslen, R.W. (2008) Stepping out of the shadow: Goro Miyazaki's Tales from Earthsea. Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, 37(103), pp. 53-72.
Peake, M.L. (2008) Collected Poems. [Scholarly Editions]
2007
Maslen, R. (2007) The art of the matter: G. Peter Winnington's 'The Voice of the Heart'. Peake Studies, 10(3), pp. 26-40. [Book Review]
Maslen, R.W. (2007) Show some good will. Around the Globe, 35, pp. 30-31.
2006
Maslen, R.W. (2006) The cat got your tongue: pseudo-translation, conversion and control in William Baldwin's Beware the cat. In: Schoenberg, T.J. and Trudeau, L.J. (eds.) Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800: Critical Discussion of Fifteenth-, Sixteenth-, Seventeenth-, and Eighteenth-Century Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Philosophers and Other Creative Writers. Gale Group: Detroit, USA. ISBN 9780787687342
Maslen, R.W. (2006) Extreme comedy: seeing the funny side of Titus Andronicus. Around the Globe, 33, pp. 4-5.
Maslen, R.W. (2006) Flann O'Brien's bombshells: At swim-two-birds and The third policeman. New Hibernia Review, 10(4), pp. 84-104.
Maslen, R.W. (2006) Twelfth night, gender, and comedy. In: Sullivan, G.A., Cheney, P. and Hadfield, A. (eds.) Early Modern English Drama: A Critical Companion. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 130-139. ISBN 9780195153866
2005
Maslen, R.W. (2005) Shakespeare and comedy. Series: The Arden critical companions. Arden Shakespeare. ISBN 9781904271444
2004
Maslen, R.W. (2004) The image of idleness in the reign of Elizabeth I. English Language Notes, 41(3), pp. 11-23.
Maslen, R.W. (2004) Sidney, Gascoigne and the bastard poets. In: Relihan, C. and Stanivukovic, G. (eds.) Prose Fiction and Early Modern Sexualities in England, 1570-1640. Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 215-233. ISBN 9781403963888
2003
Maslen, R.W. (2003) The afterlife of Andrew Borde. Studies in Philology, 100(4), pp. 463-492.
Maslen, R.W. (2003) The taming of the shrew and The image of idleness. Notes and Queries, 50(1), pp. 25-27. (doi: 10.1093/nq/50.1.25)
Maslen, R.W. (2003) Fiction 1: to the eighteenth century. In: Loades, D.M. (ed.) Reader's Guide to British History. Fitzroy Dearborn: New York, USA, pp. 508-509. ISBN 9781579582425
Maslen, R.W. (2003) Lodge’s Glaucus and Scilla and the conditions of catholic authorship in Elizabethan England. EnterText, 3(1), pp. 59-100.
2002
Maslen, R.W. (2002) Sidneian geographies. Sidney Journal, 20(2), pp. 45-56.
2001
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Ayrer, Jakob. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Bacon, Francis. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Barnes, Barnabe. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Barnfield, Richard. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Beaumont, Francis. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Chapman, George. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Chester, Robert. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Chettle, Henry. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Coryat, Thomas. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Cotgrave, Randle. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Daniel, Samuel. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Davenport, Robert. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Day, John. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Dekker, Thomas. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Deloney, Thomas. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Donne, John. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Dorset, Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Drayton, Michael. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Drummond, William. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Fletcher, John. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Gosson, Stephen. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Greville, Fulke. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Harvey, Gabriel. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Heywood, Thomas. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Jonson, Ben. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Kyd, Thomas. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Lanier, Emilia. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Marlowe, Christopher. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Massinger, Philip. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Milddleton, Thomas. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Mulcaster, Richard. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Munday, Anthony. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Nashe, Thomas. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Norton, Thomas. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Peele, George. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Porter, Henry. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Ralegh, Sir Walter. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Rowley, William. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Stubbes, Philip. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) 'University wits'. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Webster, John. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Wilkins, George. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
2000
Maslen, R. (2000) Towards an iconography of the future: C. S. Lewis and the scientific humanists. Inklings: Jahrbuch für Literatur und Ästhetik, 18, pp. 222-249.
Maslen, R.W. (2000) Myths exploited: the Metamorphoses of Ovid in early Elizabethan England. In: Taylor, A.B. (ed.) Shakespeare's Ovid: The Metamorphoses in the Plays and Poems. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, pp. 15-30. ISBN 9780521771924
Maslen, R.W. (2000) William Baldwin and the politics of pseudo-philosophy in Tudor prose fiction. Studies in Philology, 97(1), pp. 29-60.
1999
Maslen, R.W. (1999) The cat got your tongue: pseudo-translation, conversion and control in William Baldwin's Beware the cat. Translation and Literature, 8(1), pp. 3-27.
1997
Maslen, R.W. (1997) Elizabethan Fictions: Espionage, Counter-espionage and the Duplicity of Fiction in Early Elizabethan Prose Narratives. Series: Oxford English monographs. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198119913
1996
Maslen, R. (1996) Towards an archaeology of the present: Theodora Kroeber and Ursula K. Le Guin. Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, 67, pp. 62-74.
1994
Maslen, R. (1994) Edmund Tilney. In: Richardson, D.A. (ed.) Dictionary of Literary Biography. Series: Sixteenth-Century Nondramatic Writers (Second Series) (136). Gale Research: Detroit, USA, pp. 326-329. ISBN 9780810353954
Maslen, R. (1994) Introductions to: Henry VI part 1, Henry VI part 2, Henry VI part 3, Richard III, Titus Andronicus. In: Alexander, P. (ed.) Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Series: Collins classics. HarperCollins: Glasgow, UK. ISBN 9780004704753
Maslen, R. (1994) John Grange. In: Richardson, D.A. (ed.) Dictionary of Literary Biography. Series: Sixteenth-Century Nondramatic Writers (Second Series) (136). Gale Research: Detroit, USA, pp. 155-158. ISBN 9780810353954
1993
Maslen, R.W. (1993) Venus and Adonis and the Death of Orpheus. Glasgow Review, 1, pp. 67-78.
1992
Maslen, R. (1992) L'euphuisme. In: Benoit-Dusausoy, A. and Fontaine, G. (eds.) Lettres Européennes: Histoire de la Littérature Européenne. Hachette: Paris, France, pp. 313-314. ISBN 9782010165672
Maslen, R. (1992) Le bel âge d'or: la pastorale. In: Benoit-Dusausoy, A. and Fontaine, G. (eds.) Lettres Européennes: Histoire de la Littérature Européenne. Hachette: Paris, France, pp. 303-304. ISBN 9782010165672
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Articles
Maslen, R. (2021) The centre for fantasy and the fantastic at the University of Glasgow: Practising the impossible. Fantastika Journal, 5(1), pp. 13-16.
Maslen, R. (2015) One man's meat: The Changeling. Around the Globe(59), pp. 24-27.
Maslen, R. (2015) Whose shoes?: Measure for Measure. Around the Globe, 60, pp. 18-19.
Maslen, R. (2014) The strangeness of King John. Essays in Criticism, 64(3), pp. 247-265. (doi: 10.1093/escrit/cgu012)
Maslen, R. (2014) The Love Bug: Antony and Cleopatra. Around the Globe, 57, pp. 22-23.
Maslen, R. (2012) Fantasies of the familiar in The Taming of the Shrew. Around the Globe, 50, pp. 10-12.
Maslen, R.W. (2011) Magical journeys in sixteenth-century prose fiction. Yearbook of English Studies, 41(1), pp. 35-50.
Maslen, R.W. (2011) Mervyn Peake’s Illustrations for Rhymes Without Reason (1944). PN Review, 37(5), pp. 24-26.
Maslen, R.W. (2011) Sense and nonsense: All’s well that ends well. Around the Globe, 47, pp. 10-12.
Maslen, R.W. (2010) Peake at Southport: published and unpublished verses from the seafront, 1942. Peake Studies, 12(1), pp. 3-24.
Maslen, R.W. (2009) Dreams, freedom of speech, and the demonic affiliations of Robin Goodfellow. Journal of the Northern Renaissance, 1, pp. 129-144.
Maslen, R.W. (2009) Imagining the past, remembering the future. Journal of the Northern Renaissance, 2, i-x.
Maslen, R.W. (2009) Macbeth: a Scottish play. Around the Globe, 44, pp. 2-3.
Maslen, R.W. (2009) Response to a letter from Ursula K. Le Guin. Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, 37(104), p. 8.
Maslen, R.W. (2009) Where even trees may speak their minds: As you like it. Around the Globe, 41, pp. 4-5.
Maslen, R.W. (2008) Fantasies of war in Peake's uncollected verse. Peake Studies, 10(4), pp. 5-23.
Maslen, R.W. (2008) A coomonwealth of merriment: The merry wives of Windsor. Around the Globe, 38, pp. 8-10.
Maslen, R.W. (2008) The healing dialogues of Dr Bullein. Yearbook of English Studies, 38(1-2), pp. 119-135.
Maslen, R.W. (2008) Stepping out of the shadow: Goro Miyazaki's Tales from Earthsea. Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, 37(103), pp. 53-72.
Maslen, R.W. (2007) Show some good will. Around the Globe, 35, pp. 30-31.
Maslen, R.W. (2006) Extreme comedy: seeing the funny side of Titus Andronicus. Around the Globe, 33, pp. 4-5.
Maslen, R.W. (2006) Flann O'Brien's bombshells: At swim-two-birds and The third policeman. New Hibernia Review, 10(4), pp. 84-104.
Maslen, R.W. (2004) The image of idleness in the reign of Elizabeth I. English Language Notes, 41(3), pp. 11-23.
Maslen, R.W. (2003) The afterlife of Andrew Borde. Studies in Philology, 100(4), pp. 463-492.
Maslen, R.W. (2003) The taming of the shrew and The image of idleness. Notes and Queries, 50(1), pp. 25-27. (doi: 10.1093/nq/50.1.25)
Maslen, R.W. (2003) Lodge’s Glaucus and Scilla and the conditions of catholic authorship in Elizabethan England. EnterText, 3(1), pp. 59-100.
Maslen, R.W. (2002) Sidneian geographies. Sidney Journal, 20(2), pp. 45-56.
Maslen, R. (2000) Towards an iconography of the future: C. S. Lewis and the scientific humanists. Inklings: Jahrbuch für Literatur und Ästhetik, 18, pp. 222-249.
Maslen, R.W. (2000) William Baldwin and the politics of pseudo-philosophy in Tudor prose fiction. Studies in Philology, 97(1), pp. 29-60.
Maslen, R.W. (1999) The cat got your tongue: pseudo-translation, conversion and control in William Baldwin's Beware the cat. Translation and Literature, 8(1), pp. 3-27.
Maslen, R. (1996) Towards an archaeology of the present: Theodora Kroeber and Ursula K. Le Guin. Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, 67, pp. 62-74.
Maslen, R.W. (1993) Venus and Adonis and the Death of Orpheus. Glasgow Review, 1, pp. 67-78.
Books
Maslen, R.W. (2005) Shakespeare and comedy. Series: The Arden critical companions. Arden Shakespeare. ISBN 9781904271444
Maslen, R.W. (1997) Elizabethan Fictions: Espionage, Counter-espionage and the Duplicity of Fiction in Early Elizabethan Prose Narratives. Series: Oxford English monographs. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198119913
Book Sections
Maslen, R. (2020) The sinking city. In: Barclay, H. and Hehir, S. (eds.) Stories from Home: An Anthology of Stories and Poems. Garmoran Publishing, pp. 115-119. ISBN 9781913510152
Maslen, R. (2019) The decay of exemplarity in Troilus and Cressida. In: Mitsi, E. (ed.) Troilus and Cressida: A Critical Reader. Series: Arden Early Modern Drama Guides. Bloomsbury: London, pp. 107-128. ISBN 9781350014190
Maslen, R.W. (2017) Elizabethan popular romance and the popular novel. In: Keymer, T. (ed.) Prose Fiction from the Origins of Print to 1750. Series: The Oxford history of the novel in English (1). Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780199580033
Maslen, R. (2017) Fantastic economies: Flann O’Brien and James Stephens. In: Borg, R., Fagan, P. and McCourt, J. (eds.) Flann O'Brien: Problems with Authority. Cork University Press: Cork, pp. 136-151. ISBN 9781782052302
Maslen, R. (2016) Armour that doesn't work: an anti-meme in Medieval and Renaissance Romance. In: King, A. and Woodcock, M. (eds.) Medieval into Renaissance: Essays for Helen Cooper. D. S. Brewer: Cambridge, pp. 35-54. ISBN 9781843844327
Maslen, R. (2014) Marlowe's ghost: The Second Report of Doctor John Faustus. In: Olsen, K.E. and Veenstra, J.R. (eds.) Airy Nothings: Imagining the Otherworld of Faerie from the Middle Ages to the Age of Reason. Brill: Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 1-23. ISBN 9789004245518
Maslen, R. (2013) Mervyn Peake, the poet of Gormenghast. In: Winnington, G.P. (ed.) Miracle Enough: Papers on the Works of Mervyn Peake. Cambridge Scholars Press: Newcastle, UK, pp. 127-138. ISBN 9781443844116
Maslen, R. (2013) Robert Greene. In: Hadfield, A. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of English Prose, 1500-1640. Series: Oxford handbooks of literature. Oxford University Press: Corby, UK, pp. 188-203. ISBN 9780199580682
Maslen, R. (2012) Fantasies of Complicity in the Second World War. In: Piette, A. and Rawlinson, M. (eds.) The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century British and American War Literature. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 516-523. ISBN 9780748638741
Maslen, R. (2012) Sir Philip Sidney. In: Stewart, A. and Sullivan, G. (eds.) The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature. Series: Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature, 3. Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford, pp. 883-890. ISBN 9781405194495
Maslen, R. (2012) Towards a fantastic history of the Twentieth Century. In: Hart, P. (ed.) Studies in English: Proceedings from the Sixth International IDEA Conference. Istanbul Kültür University: Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 23-40. ISBN 9786054233922
Maslen, R. (2011) The Early English novel in Antwerp: the impact of Jan van Doesborch. In: Bayer, G. and Klitgård, E. (eds.) Narrative Developments from Chaucer to Defoe. Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture (11). Routledge: New York and Abingdon, pp. 136-157. ISBN 9780415879484
Maslen, R. (2011) Lying about the past, inventing the future: Hope Mirrlees's 'Lud-in-the Mist' as fantastic history. In: Dobson, M. and Woodall, J. (eds.) Where We Fell to Earth: Writing for Peter Conrad. (Privately Published), pp. 224-234.
Maslen, R.W. (2011) Lodge’s Glaucus and Scilla and the Conditions of Catholic Authorship in Elizabethan England. In: Whitney, C.C. (ed.) Thomas Lodge. Series: University Wits Series. Ashgate: London, pp. 409-432. ISBN 9780754628750
Maslen, R. (2010) Prose fiction: realism. In: Braden, G., Cummings, R. and Gillespie, S. (eds.) Oxford History of Literary Translation in English: 1550-1660. Series: Oxford History of Literary Translation in English. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 347-357. ISBN 9780199246212
Maslen, R.W. and Taylor, G. (2010) News from Gravesend: sent to nobody. In: Taylor, G. and Lavagnino, J. (eds.) Thomas Middleton : The Collected Works. Oxford University Press, pp. 128-148. ISBN 9780199580538
Maslen, R.W. (2009) Introduction: political theatre from Greece to Glasgow. In: Fleeto [by Paddy Cunneen]. Fairplay Press, pp. 5-9. ISBN 9781906220280
Maslen, R.W. (2009) William Baldwin and the Tudor imagination. In: Pincombe, M. and Shrank, C. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Literature, 1485-1603. Series: Oxford Handbooks. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 291-306. ISBN 9780199205882
Maslen, R.W. (2008) Lightness, love and death: light tragedy: Romeo and Juliet. In: Lee, M. (ed.) Shakespearean Criticism. Gale Group: Detroit, USA. ISBN 9780787688448
Maslen, R.W. (2008) Robert Greene and the uses of time. In: Melnikoff, K. and Gieskes, E. (eds.) Writing Robert Greene: Essays on England's First Notorious Professional Writer. Ashgate: Aldershot, UK, pp. 157-188. ISBN 9780754657019
Maslen, R.W. (2006) The cat got your tongue: pseudo-translation, conversion and control in William Baldwin's Beware the cat. In: Schoenberg, T.J. and Trudeau, L.J. (eds.) Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800: Critical Discussion of Fifteenth-, Sixteenth-, Seventeenth-, and Eighteenth-Century Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Philosophers and Other Creative Writers. Gale Group: Detroit, USA. ISBN 9780787687342
Maslen, R.W. (2006) Twelfth night, gender, and comedy. In: Sullivan, G.A., Cheney, P. and Hadfield, A. (eds.) Early Modern English Drama: A Critical Companion. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 130-139. ISBN 9780195153866
Maslen, R.W. (2004) Sidney, Gascoigne and the bastard poets. In: Relihan, C. and Stanivukovic, G. (eds.) Prose Fiction and Early Modern Sexualities in England, 1570-1640. Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 215-233. ISBN 9781403963888
Maslen, R.W. (2003) Fiction 1: to the eighteenth century. In: Loades, D.M. (ed.) Reader's Guide to British History. Fitzroy Dearborn: New York, USA, pp. 508-509. ISBN 9781579582425
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Ayrer, Jakob. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Bacon, Francis. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Barnes, Barnabe. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Barnfield, Richard. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Beaumont, Francis. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Chapman, George. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Chester, Robert. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Chettle, Henry. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Coryat, Thomas. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Cotgrave, Randle. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Daniel, Samuel. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Davenport, Robert. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Day, John. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Dekker, Thomas. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Deloney, Thomas. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Donne, John. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Dorset, Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Drayton, Michael. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Drummond, William. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Fletcher, John. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Gosson, Stephen. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Greville, Fulke. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Harvey, Gabriel. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Heywood, Thomas. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Jonson, Ben. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Kyd, Thomas. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Lanier, Emilia. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Marlowe, Christopher. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Massinger, Philip. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Milddleton, Thomas. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Mulcaster, Richard. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Munday, Anthony. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Nashe, Thomas. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Norton, Thomas. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Peele, George. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Porter, Henry. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Ralegh, Sir Walter. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Rowley, William. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Stubbes, Philip. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) 'University wits'. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Webster, John. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2001) Wilkins, George. In: Dobson, M. and Wells, S.W. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198117353
Maslen, R.W. (2000) Myths exploited: the Metamorphoses of Ovid in early Elizabethan England. In: Taylor, A.B. (ed.) Shakespeare's Ovid: The Metamorphoses in the Plays and Poems. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, pp. 15-30. ISBN 9780521771924
Maslen, R. (1994) Edmund Tilney. In: Richardson, D.A. (ed.) Dictionary of Literary Biography. Series: Sixteenth-Century Nondramatic Writers (Second Series) (136). Gale Research: Detroit, USA, pp. 326-329. ISBN 9780810353954
Maslen, R. (1994) Introductions to: Henry VI part 1, Henry VI part 2, Henry VI part 3, Richard III, Titus Andronicus. In: Alexander, P. (ed.) Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Series: Collins classics. HarperCollins: Glasgow, UK. ISBN 9780004704753
Maslen, R. (1994) John Grange. In: Richardson, D.A. (ed.) Dictionary of Literary Biography. Series: Sixteenth-Century Nondramatic Writers (Second Series) (136). Gale Research: Detroit, USA, pp. 155-158. ISBN 9780810353954
Maslen, R. (1992) L'euphuisme. In: Benoit-Dusausoy, A. and Fontaine, G. (eds.) Lettres Européennes: Histoire de la Littérature Européenne. Hachette: Paris, France, pp. 313-314. ISBN 9782010165672
Maslen, R. (1992) Le bel âge d'or: la pastorale. In: Benoit-Dusausoy, A. and Fontaine, G. (eds.) Lettres Européennes: Histoire de la Littérature Européenne. Hachette: Paris, France, pp. 303-304. ISBN 9782010165672
Book Reviews
Maslen, R. (2007) The art of the matter: G. Peter Winnington's 'The Voice of the Heart'. Peake Studies, 10(3), pp. 26-40. [Book Review]
Edited Books
Maslen, R. and Winnington, G.P. (Eds.) (2011) Complete Nonsense by Mervyn Peake. Carcanet: Manchester, UK. ISBN 9781847770875
Schmidt, M. and Maslen, R.W. (Eds.) (2008) The Shakespeare Handbook. Quercus: London, UK. ISBN 9781847246158
Scholarly Editions
Peake, M.L. (2008) Collected Poems. [Scholarly Editions]
Research Reports or Papers
Maslen, R. (2012) States of exile. Other. Hindmarsh, Adelaide, Australia.
Website
Maslen, R. (2015) The City of Lost Books. [Website]
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Supervision
Dr Maslen has supervised sixteen successfully completed PhD theses in the following areas: representations of Islam and Muslims in early modern drama (Mohamed Abu-Baker); English and French prose fiction by women in the seventeenth century (Séverine Genieys); George Chapman (Shona McIntosh); Victorian fantastic literature, art and architecture (Helen Sutherland); twentieth-century fantasy and modernism (Margaret Hiley); the Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany (Tania Scott); eighteenth- and nineteenth-century phantasmagoria (Douglas Small); Tolkien’s monsters (Christina Fawcett); co-authorship in the works of Middleton and Dekker (Eilidh Kane); C. S. Lewis, Ursula K. Le Guin and the language of fantasy (Shezra Kamran); early modern letters (Felicity Maxwell); imaginative and intellectual cartographies in early modern England (Patrick Murray); disease in the Victorian Gothic novel (Alexandra Foulds); and creative writing (Elizabeth Reeder, Chiew Siah Tei, Sylvia Hehir).
He has taught on graduate courses in creative writing, Medieval and Renaissance studies, theatre studies, Victorian studies, children’s literature and modernism, as well as fantasy.
He is interested in supervising theses on almost any topic connected with fantasy/the fantastic or with early modern literature and drama (c. 1500-1640).
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