Background

Background

Shady

Qualifications

M.A., Ph. D. Oxon.

Memberships

Member of the Renaissance Panel for the Literature Compass
The Tudor Symposium
The Malone Society

 

Research

Research Interests

Tudor and Elizabethan literature

Structural and semiotic analysis of literary texts and literary systems

Louis ALTHUSSER | Balint BALASSI | Dada | ghost-story | Barnaby GOOGE | Algirdas-Julien GREIMAS | John LYLY | lyric | A Mirror for Magistrates | Titus Andronicus | Tzvetan Todorov | tragedy

Current Work

A critical study of early Elizabethan poetry.

Postgraduate Supervision

Any area of Tudor or Elizabethan literature. -- Recent and current PhD students' topics include: "The Figure of Islam in George Peele's 'Battle of Alcazar'; "Hell on Earth: Tyrants and Tyranny in English Tragedy form Sackville to Shakespeare'; "'This Scribbling Generation': The Literary Careers of Thomas Nashe and Robert Greene.' I also co-supervise Creative Writing Ph.Ds.

Publications

• Pincombe MJ. Far more than a simple ghost story: Algernon Blackwood's 'Chemical' (1926). In: Stefano Cracolici and Mark Sandy, ed. Ghostly Representations: Cultural and Imaginary Encounters with Spirits from the Nineteenth Century to the Present. TBC: TBC, 2019. Submitted.
• Pincombe MJ. Far more than a simple ghost story: Algernon Blackwood's 'Chemical' (1926). In: Stefano Cracolici and Mark Sandy, ed. Ghostly Representations: Cultural and Imaginary Encounters with Spirits from the Nineteenth Century to the Present. TBC: TBC, 2019. Submitted.
• Pincombe MJ. The ghost story, 1875-1975: A formalist analysis. Houndmills: Palgrave, 2018. In Preparation.
• Pincombe MJ, Schwartz-Leeper G. John Foxe's Book of Martyrs: Tragedies of Tyrants. In: Hiscock,A;Wilcox,H, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Renaissance Literature and Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, pp.279-293. Submitted.
• Pincombe MJ. Tragic and untragic bodies in the Mirror for Magistrates. In: Archer ,H; Hadfield, A, ed. A Mirror for Magistrates in Context. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2016, pp.35-52.
• Pincombe MJ. Dream and Mystery in Sir Thomas Wyatt's 'Tagus, Farewell'. Studia Neophilologica 2015, 87, 36-47.
• Pincombe MJ. Most and Now: Tense and Aspect in Bálint Balassi’s 'Áldott szép pünkösdnek'. In: Harrison,C;Nuttall,L;Stockwell,P;Yuan,W, ed. Cognitive Grammar in Literature. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2014, pp.161-176.
• Pincombe MJ. Pastoral Aenigma, Topical Allegory, and Social Exclusion: The Example of Googe's Eclogues. Essays in Criticism 2014, 64(3), 227-246.
• Pincombe MJ. A New Poem by Arthur Golding!. Notes and Queries 2013, 60(3), 384-386.
• Pincombe MJ. William Baldwin and A Mirror for Magistrates. Renaissance Studies 2013, 27(2), 183-198.
• Pincombe MJ. Alexander Barclay. In: Sullivan, G.A., Stewart, A, ed. The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature. Boston: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, pp.44-46.
• Pincombe MJ. Centre and Periphery in Renaissance Europe: Tudor England in an International Context. In: Szonyi, G.E., Maczelka, C, ed. Centers and Peripheries in European Renaissance Culture: Essays by East-Central European Mellen Fellows. Szeged: JATE Press, 2012, pp.7-22.
• Pincombe MJ. George Cavendish. In: Sullivan, G.A., Stewart, A, ed. The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, pp.158-159.
• Pincombe MJ. George Ferrers. In: Sullivan, G.A., Stewart, A, ed. The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, pp.341-342.
• Pincombe MJ. John Phillips. In: Sullivan, G.A., Stewart, A, ed. The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, pp.786-788.
• Almási ZS, Pincombe MJ, ed. New Perspectives on Mid-Tudor Culture: Literature, Society and Politics. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.
• Pincombe M. Thomas Elyot’s ‘Wonderful History of Titus and Gisippus’ (1531) as a Source for William Walter’s Titus and Gisippus (1525?). Notes and Queries 2012, 59(4), 490-494.
• Pincombe MJ. Tragic Inspiration in Jasper Heywood's Translation of Seneca's Thyestes: Melpomene or Megaera. In: Betteridge, T., Walker, G, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, pp.531-546.
• Pincombe MJ. Visions of an Unseen World: Ghost Beliefs and Ghost Stories in Eighteenth-Century England – By Sasha Handley [Book review]. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 2012, 35(2), 265-267.
• Pincombe MJ. A Mirror for Magistrates and the Politics of the English Reformation by Scott C. Lucas [Book review]. Review of English Studies 2011, 62(253), 134-136.
• Pincombe MJ. Evolutionary Experiment in the Lyric Poetry of Balint Balassi. Journal of the Northern Renaissance 2011, 3(1), 1-17.
• Pincombe MJ. A School Story: Coins and Clues. The Ghosts & Scholars M R James Newsletter 2010, 17, 11-15.
• Pincombe MJ, Shrank C. Doing Away with the Drab Age: Research Opportunities in Mid-Tudor Literature (1530–1580). Literature Compass 2010, 7(3), 160-176.
• Pincombe MJ. English Renaissance Tragedy: Theories and Antecedents. In: Smith, E; Sullivan, GA, ed. The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Tragedy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp.3-16.
• Pincombe MJ. 'Love and Live': The Source and the Significance of William Baldwin's Motto. Notes and Queries 2010.
• Pincombe MJ. Truth, Lies, and Fiction in William Baldwin’s Wonderful News of the Death of Paul III. Reformation 2010, 15(1), 3-22.
• Pincombe MJ. A Place in the Shade: George Cavendish and De Casibus Tragedy. In: Pincombe MJ; Shrank C, ed. The Oxford Handbook to Tudor Literature 1485-1603. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009, pp.372-388.
• Pincombe MJ. John Lyly's Gallathea: Politics and Literary Allusion. In: Cartwright, K, ed. A Companion to Tudor Literature. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009, pp.381-394.
• Pincombe MJ, Shrank C. Prologue: The Travails of Tudor Literature. In: Pincombe MJ; Shrank C, ed. The Oxford Handbook to Tudor Literature 1485-1603. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009, pp.1-20.
• Pincombe M, Shrank C, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Literature 1485-1603. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
• Pincombe MJ. William Baldwin, Humphrey Cavell, and the Authorship of the Tragedy of the Blacksmith in the 1563 Mirror for Magistrates. Notes and Queries 2009, 56(4), 515-521.
• Blakeley JP, Pincombe MJ, ed. Writing and Reform in Sixteenth-century England: interdisciplinary essays. Lampeter: Mellen, 2009.
• Pincombe MJ. Confounding Purgatory in Elysium: Allegories of the Afterworld in Sir Thomas Smith's De recta et emendata linguae Anglicae scriptione (1568). In: Writing and Reform in Sixteenth-Century England: Selected Papers from the Third International Conference of the Tudor Symposium. 2008, Newcastle upon Tyne: Lampeter: Mellen.
• Pincombe MJ. Introduction: New Lamps for Old?. The Yearbook of English Studies: Special Edition, Tudor Literature 2008, 38(1-2), 1-16.
• Pincombe MJ. John Lyly. In: Kastan DS, ed. Encyclopaedia of British Literature. New York: Oxford UP, 2008.
• Almazi Zs, Pincombe MJ, ed. Writing the Other: Humanism versus Barbarism in Tudor England. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2008.
• Pincombe MJ. Comic Treatment of Tragic Character in Godly Queen Hester. In: Happe, P., Husken, W, ed. Interludes and Early Modern Society: Studies in Gender, Power and Theatricality. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007, pp.95-116.
• Pincombe M. Hattaway, M., 'Renaissance and Reformations: An introduction to early modern English literature', Oxford: Blackwell, 2005 [Book review]. Notes and Queries 2007, 54(1), 98-99.
• Pincombe MJ. Homosexual Panic in the English Ghost Story: M.R. James and Others. In: Joshi, S.T. Pardoe, R, ed. Warnings to the Curious: A Sheaf of Criticism on M. R. James. New York: Hippocampus, 2007, pp.184-96.
• Pincombe MJ. Life and Death on the Habsburg-Ottoman Border: Balint Balassi's "In laudem confiniorum" and Other Soldier-Poems. In: Betteridge, T, ed. Travellers and Borders in Early Modern Europe. Ashgate: Aldershot, 2007, pp.73-86.
• Pincombe M. Lyly, J., 'The 'woman in the moon'', Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006 [Book review]. Notes and Queries 2007, 54(4), 509-511.
• Pincombe M. The Dry Mock: The Concept of Irony in George Puttenham's Art of English Poesy (1589). In: Hongeer, T; Orth, EM; Schwabe, S, ed. Irony Revisited: Spurensuche in der englischsprachigen Literatur: Festschrift fur Wolfgang G. Muller. Wurzburg: Konigshausen & Neumann, 2007, pp.99-114.
• Shrank C, Pincombe M, Bryson A, Schurink F. The Origins of Early Modern Literature: Recovering Mid-Tudor Writing for a Modern Readership. Sheffield University: hriOnline, 2007. Available at: http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/origins/.
• Pincombe M. His Master's Voice: The Conjuring of Emperors in Doctor Faustus and the German Tradition. Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies: Voices of the English Renaissance 2006, 9, 117-132.
• Pincombe M. Interludes of Vice: Generic Experimentation in Horestes. In: Hillman, R, ed. Outsiders Within: Figures of Mediation: Papers from the 9th Tudor Round Table. Tours: Centre d'Etudes Superieures de la Renaissance: Universite de Tours, 2006, pp.163-178.
• Pincombe M. "Titus Our Contemporary"? Some Reflections on Heiner Muller's Anatomie Titus Fall of Rome. In: Olga Kubinska & Ewa Nawrocka, ed. Playing Games with Shakespeare: Contemporary Reception of Shakespeare in the Baltic Region. Gdansk: Theatrum Gedanense Foundation, 2004, pp.27-61.
• Pincombe M. Lyly and Golding: A New Source for Euphues and his England. Notes & Queries 2004, 51(3), 243-245.
• Pincombe M. The Trauma of History in Titus Andronicus: Dürrenmatt's Adaption of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus. In: Coelsch-Foisner, S., Szonyi, G.E, ed. "Not of an Age, but for All Time" : Shakespeare across Lands and Ages : Essays in Honour of Holger Klein on the Occasion of His 66th Birthday. Vienna, Austria: Braumüller, 2004, pp.199-211.
• Pincombe M, ed. Travels and Translations in the Sixteenth Century: Selected Papers. Ashgate: Aldershot & Burlington VT, 2004.
• Pincombe M. "Gloomy Orion": Eliot, Marlowe, Virgil. Notes & Queries 2003, 50(3), 329-330.
• Pincombe M. Lost Horizons: C. S. Lewis and the Disappearance of Sixteenth-Century English Literature. In: Bela, T., Mazur, Z, ed. The Legacy of History: English and American Studies and the Significance of the Past. Krakow, Poland: Jagiellonian University Press, 2003, pp.171-85.
• Pincombe M. More on Mephistopheles. The M. R. James Gjosts & Scholars Newsletter 2003, 4, 37.
• Pincombe M. Review: Sir John Harington and the Book as Gift. Review of English Studies 2003, 54(216), 528-530.
• Pincombe M. Robert Dudley, Gorboduc, and `The masque of Beauty and Desire': A Reconsideration of the Evidence for Political Intervention. Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Inc.) 2003, 20(1), 19-44.
• Pincombe M. Karlshafen: Idylls and Elegies. London: Tamburlaine, 2002.
• Pincombe M. King, R. (ed.), 'The works of Richard Edwards: Politics, poetry and performance in sixteenth-century England', Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001. Review of English Studies 2002, 53(210), 248-249.
• Pincombe M. 'Philautus' in Rich and Lyly: A suspicion confirmed. Notes and Queries 2002, 49(2), 253-254.
• Pincombe M. A 'Mirror for Magistrates' and the de casibus tradition. The Review of English Studies 2001, 52(207), 439-440.
• Pincombe MJ. Elizabethan Humanism : literature and learning in the later sixteenth century. London: Longman-Pearson, 2001.
• Pincombe M. Introduction: Tudor Literature – Drab or Tarnished?. In: Pincombe, M, ed. The Anatomy of Tudor Literature: Proceedings of the First International Conference of the Tudor Symposium 1998. Aldershot & Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2001, pp.1-8.
• Pincombe M. John Lyly: Selected prose and dramatic work. Notes and Queries 2001, 48(4), 442-443.
• Pincombe M. No Thoroughfare: The Problem of Paxton in M.R. James’s ‘A Warning to the Curious’. The Ghosts and Scholars M.R.James Newsletter 2001, 32, 42-47.
• Pincombe MJ. Sackville tragicus: A case of poetic identity. In: Piesse, AJ, ed. Sixteenth-century identities. Manchester & New York: Manchester University Press, 2001, pp.112-132.
• Pincombe M, ed. The Anatomy of Tudor Literature: Proceedings of the First International Conference of the Tudor Symposium (1998). Ashgate: Aldershot & Burlington VT, 2001.
• Pincombe M. The Ovidian Hermaphrodite: Moralizations by Peend and Spenser. In: Stanivukovic, Goran V, ed. Ovid and the Renaissance body. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001, pp.155-170.
• Pincombe M. Cupid and Eliza: Variations on a Virgilian Icon in Plays by Gager, Lyly, and Marlowe. In: Szonyi, G.E., Wymer, R, ed. The Iconography of Power: Ideas and Images of Rulership on the English Renaissance Stage. Szeged: JATEPress, 2000, pp.33-52.
• Pincombe M. Gascoigne’s Phylomene: A Late-Mediaeval Paraphrase of the Philomela Story. In: Koelsch-Foisner, S, ed. Elizabethan Literature and Transformation. Tubingen: Stauffenburg, 1999, pp.71-81.
• Mike Pincombe. Horace Walpole’s Hamlet. In: Marta Gibinska & Jerzy Limon, ed. Hamlet: East-West, Gdansk: Theatrum Gedanense Foundation, 125-35. Gdansk: Theatrum Gedanense Foundation, 1998, pp.125-135.
• Pincombe Mike. Lyly and Lesbianism: Mysteries of the Closet in Sappho and Phao. In: Gordon McMullan, ed. Renaissance Configurations: Voices, Bodies, Spaces 1580-1690. London: Macmillan, 1998, pp.89-107.
• Mike Pincombe. Classical and Contemporary Sources of the "Gloomy Woods" of Titus Andronicus: Ovid, Seneca, Spenser. In: John Batchelor, Tom Cain, & Claire Lamont, ed. Shakespearean Continuities: Essays in Honour of E. A. J. Honigmann. London: Macmillan, 1997, pp.40-55.
• Mike Pincombe. Lyly's Campaspe and the Tudor Jest-Book. Notes & Queries 1997, 44 (ns), 30-32.
• Mike Pincombe. The Plays of John Lyly: Eros and Eliza. The Revels Plays Companion Library Series. Manchester: Manchester University Press 1996.
• Mike Pincombe. Lyly’s Euphues: Anatomy or Peepshow?. In: Wolfgang Gortschacher & Holger Klein, ed. Narrative Strategies in Early English Fiction. Lewiston & Salzburg: Mellen, 1995, pp.103-114.
• Mike Pincombe. The Date of The Image of Idleness. Notes & Queries 1994, 41 (ns), 21.
• Mike Pincombe. Some Sixteenth-Century Records of the Words Humanist and Humanitian. Review of English Studies 1993, 44 (ns), 1-15.
• Mike Pincombe. Two Elizabethan Masque-Orations by Thomas Pound. Bodleian Library Record 1987, 12, 349-80.