Wellsprings of a 'World War': An early English attempt to conquer Canada during King William's war, 1688-97

This is the author's PDF version of an article published in Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History© 2006. The definitive version is available at www.tandf.co.uk/journals/FICHThis article discusses the military history of the early years of King William's War, 1688-97, including an early attempt to conquer French Canada in 1690 by Sir William Phips. The article places this within differeing interpretations of the military historiography of early modern colonial America.This article was submitted to the RAE2008 for the University of Chester - History

Plautus and His Dramatic Successors in the Republican Period

This chapter discusses the standing of Plautus in the middle to late Republican period, when his plays were popular with audiences, were studied by scholars, and were points of reference for other dramatists. In particular, this contribution analyzes reactions by Plautus's dramatic successors in his own dramatic genre (fabula palliata) and related ones (fabula togata, fabula Atellana) to Plautine comedy, using the motif of the contrast between town and country as a paradigmatic case study