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

			    
                    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
                
NewsLost Masterpieces
		    David Ellis looks at the literary ones that got away                Read More

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

                    Aug3
                
NewsLooking The Part
		    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

                    Jun9
                
AuthorNewsDickens and Lawrence: A tale of two halves
		    David Ellis considers how 'David Copperfield' and 'Sons and Lovers' both fade after half time.                Read More

                    Mar2
                
AuthorEastwood in Nottinghamshire
		    David Ellis visits the birthplace of D.H. Lawrence                Read More