ABSTRACT
MB: We’re trying to be more responsive to academic research . . . I’m personally really grateful for the balance the academic world gives to the really quite weak situation we have at the moment in terms of journalistic criticism: the levels of investment into inquiry (in mainstream journalism) are quite minimal. So a comparison I would make right away would be between scholarly criticism, which involves a great deal of personal investment, and journalistic criticism, which
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who has written about Arbella Stuart. I was very interested in her as a prism through which one could see Hamlet’s madness and Ophelia’s madness and the whole marriage game at the time. I think there is a place-without getting too highbrow-where that is useful. We have entered into relationships, all different kinds of inquiry, with universities both in the States and here; the key thing is always the personal relationship.
