Montaigne and Shakespeare

My radio essay on Montaigne and Shakespeare is now available on the BBC iPlayer.

The First English Author

Further to the post last year about the identity of "the first author" in the history of English literature, here, courtesy of the British Academy's website, is a brief audio extract of my discussion of three possible candidates, at an event held at the Royal Society last month on "Writing National Literatures": click for the audio.