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  1. Caliban as a “Topsy Turvy” Grotesque: An Early Modern Theatregram?

    Article • ANQ A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles Notes and Reviews, July 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Laurence Wright

  2. The Importance of being Guy Butler: The Centenary Lecture

    Article • English Academy Review, July 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Laurence Wright

  3. Visualizing Mrs. Schomberg in Conrad’s Victory: Manet, Gauguin, and Van Gogh

    Article • ANQ A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles Notes and Reviews, November 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Laurence Wright

  4. Why English Dominates the Central Economy: An Economic Perspective on “Elite Closure” and South African Language Policy

    Article • February 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Laurence Wright

  5. African Theatre 12: Shakespeare in & out of Africa. Edited by Jane Plastow. Suffolk, UK, and Rochester, NY: James Currey / Boydell & Brewer, 2013; pp. xvi + 194, 8 illustrations. $34.95 paper.

    Article • Theatre Survey, December 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Laurence Wright

  6. English Academy Percy Baneshik Memorial Lecture: Education and the Form of the Humanities: An ‘institutional re-membering’

    Article • English Academy Review, July 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Laurence Wright

  7. The Conclusion of Somerset Maugham's THE MOON AND SIXPENCE

    Article • The Explicator, April 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Laurence Wright

  8. Nine lives of William Shakespeare

    Article • South African Theatre Journal, March 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Laurence Wright

  9. Valuing the humanities: What the reports don’t say

    Article • South African Journal of Science, January 2013, Academy of Science of South Africa

    Professor Laurence Wright

  10. English Academy Lecture Guy Butler's South Africanism: ‘Being present where you are’

    Article • English Academy Review, October 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Laurence Wright

  11. Language as a ‘Resource’ in South Africa: The Economic Life of Language in a Globalising Society

    Article • English Academy Review, June 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Laurence Wright

  12. “Being present where you are”: Guy Butler's South Africanism (with notes on Kirkwood and Coetzee)Guy Butler: Reassessing a South African Literary Life. By Chris Thurman. Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2010. 374pp.

    Article • Current Writing, May 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Laurence Wright

  13. ‘IRON ON IRON’: MODERNISM ENGAGING APARTHEID IN SOME SOUTH AFRICAN RAILWAY POEMS

    Article • English Studies in Africa, October 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Laurence Wright

  14. Introduction

    Article • Multicultural Shakespeare Translation Appropriation and Performance, January 2011, Uniwersytet Lodzki (University of Lodz)

    Professor Laurence Wright

  15. Interrogating The Spread Of Shakespeare

    Article • Multicultural Shakespeare Translation Appropriation and Performance, January 2011, Uniwersytet Lodzki (University of Lodz)

    Professor Laurence Wright

  16. Shakespeare's 100 Greatest Dramatic Images, by Claire and John Saunders

    Article • English Academy Review, May 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Laurence Wright

  17. ‘Intellectual challenge is as necessary as breathing’

    Article • English Academy Review, May 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Laurence Wright

  18. Can formal language planning link to grassroots cultural initiatives? An informal investigation

    Article • Per Linguam, August 2008, Stellenbosch University

    Professor Laurence Wright

  19. From planning to practice: Implementation challenges for South Africa’s proposed language policy and plan

    Article • Per Linguam, August 2008, Stellenbosch University

    Professor Laurence Wright

  20. Archdeacon Merriman, ‘Caliban’, and the Cattle-Killing of 1856–571

    Article • African Studies, July 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Laurence Wright

  21. The humanities, vocationalism and the public good: Exploring ‘theHamletfactor’

    Article • English Academy Review, May 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Laurence Wright

  22. Book Review

    Article • Language Policy, June 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Laurence Wright

  23. Language and value

    Article • Language Problems & Language Planning, November 2004, John Benjamins

    Professor Laurence Wright

  24. Shakespeare in South Africa: Alpha and ‘Omega’

    Article • Postcolonial Studies, April 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Laurence Wright

  25. UMABATHA:GLOBALANDLOCAL

    Article • English Studies in Africa, January 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Laurence Wright

  26. Shakespeare's the Tempest

    Article • The Explicator, January 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Laurence Wright

  27. Language as a ‘resource’ in South Africa: The economic life of language in a globalising society

    Article • English Academy Review, December 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Laurence Wright

  28. 'Taking language issues to the people': language development in context

    Article • Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, November 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Laurence Wright

  29. Why English dominates the central economy

    Article • Language Problems & Language Planning, August 2002, John Benjamins

    Professor Laurence Wright

  30. Guy Butler: 21 January 1918–26 April 2001

    Article • Current Writing, January 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Laurence Wright

  31. Book reviews

    Article • English Academy Review, December 1999, Taylor & Francis

    Nicholas Meihuizen, Professor Laurence Wright

  32. Culture and civilization in south Africa: Some questions about the ‘African renaissance'

    Article • English Academy Review, December 1999, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Laurence Wright

  33. On the passivity of Newman's ‘gentleman’: Negotiating incoherence

    Article • English Studies, June 1999, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Laurence Wright

  34. Canons into ploughshares? Harold bloom and ‘The future of literary studies’ in South Africa

    Article • English Academy Review, December 1998, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Laurence Wright

  35. REVIEWS

    Article • Southern African Journal of Applied Language Studies, January 1997, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Laurence Wright

  36. Blame me on Shakespeare(s): David Johnson'sShakespeare and South Africa

    Article • English Academy Review, December 1996, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Laurence Wright

  37. The Standardisation Question in Black South African English

    Article • January 1996, John Benjamins

    Professor Laurence Wright

  38. English in South Africa: Effective Communication and the Policy Debate

    Article • English Academy Review, December 1993, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Laurence Wright

  39. POET, CHILD AND SAVAGE: SOME ROMANTIC AND LATE-ROMANTIC ANALOGUES

    Article • English Studies in Africa, January 1992, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Laurence Wright

  40. “ARNOLD'S THEORY OF CULTURE: PLATO CONTEXTUALISED”

    Article • English Studies in Africa, January 1992, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Laurence Wright

  41. When does the tragi‐comic disruption start?:The winter's taleand leontes’ ‘affection’

    Article • English Studies, June 1989, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Laurence Wright

  42. THE WHISKY PRIEST IN THE ACADEMY: ARNOLD NEWMAN AND THE TEACHING OF LITERATURE

    Article • English Studies in Africa, January 1988, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Laurence Wright

  43. THE IDEA OF “DEVELOPMENT” IN NEWMAN'S THEORY OF UNIVERSITY EDUCATION

    Article • English Studies in Africa, January 1987, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Laurence Wright