Dr David Colclough, MA (Cambridge) DPhil (Oxford)
Senior Lecturer
Senior Lecturer
Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 8535
email: d.p.colclough@qmul.ac.uk
Research interests:
'Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England' by David Colclough
David Colclough works on the literature and culture of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His research focuses on the history of English political thought, rhetoric, and the religious writing of the period. He is the author of Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and of the Oxford DNB article on John Donne, and the editor of John Donne's Professional Lives (DS Brewer, 2003). With Sean Keilen and Raphael Lyne, he is a General Editor of the monograph series Studies in Renaissance Literature (DS Brewer). He is currently editing volume 3 of the new Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne (Sermons to the Court of Charles I), of which he is also Deputy General Editor. For more details of the project see http://www.cems-oxford.org/donne
Publications:
(Recent publications)
Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)
John Donne’s Professional Lives (Cambridge: DS Brewer, 2003) (editor, and author of introduction)
‘Rhetoric’, in Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, vol. 1: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660, ed. by Joad Raymond (forthcoming, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), 240-49.
‘Upstairs, Downstairs: Doctrine and Decorum in Two Sermons by John Donne’, Huntington Library Quarterly 73:2 (June 2010): 163-91.
‘“The Materialls for the Building”: Reuniting Francis Bacon’s Sylva Sylvarum and New Atlantis’, Intellectual History Review 20:2 (June 2010): 181-200.
‘John Donne’, in The English Parish Church Through the Centuries, ed. Dee Dyas (CD-ROM) (2010).
‘Talking to the animals: persuasion, counsel and their discontents in Julius Caesar’, in Shakespeare and early modern political thought, ed. by David Armitage, Conal Condren and Andrew Fitzmaurice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009) 217-33.
‘Verse Libels and the Epideictic Tradition in Early Stuart England’, Huntington Library Quarterly, 69:1 (2006), 15-30
‘Freedom of Speech, Libel, and the Law in Early-Moden England’, in Literature, Politics and Law in the Renaissance, ed by Erica Sheen and Lorna Hutson (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), 170-188
'John Donne's Professional Lives' edited by and introduction by David Colclough
Entry on John Donne for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004)
‘"Better becoming a Senate of Venice?" The "Addled Parliament" and Jacobean Debates on Freedom of Speech’, in The Crisis of 1614 and the Addled Parliament, ed by Stephen Clucas and Rosalind Davis (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003), 51-61
‘"Non canimus surdis, respondent omnia sylvæ": Francis Bacon and the transmission of knowledge’, in Textures of Renaissance Knowledge, ed by Philippa Berry and Margaret Tudeau-Clayton (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003), 81-97
‘Ethics and Politics in the New Atlantis’, in Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis: New interdisciplinary essays, ed by Bronwen Price (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002), 60-81
‘Scientific Writing’, in A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture, ed by Michael Hattaway (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000)