Category: George Bell

  • John Masefield’s ‘The Coming of Christ’

    [UPDATE: this article has now been published in a slightly revised form in a collection of essays edited by Andrew Chandler.] I am bound to note the appearance, on the School of Advanced Study’s institutional repository SAS-Space, a post-print text of my article on this play by John Masefield. Commissioned by George Bell for performance…

  • The visual arts in the Church of England, 1935-56

    I’m bound to draw attention to a new article of mine in the new Studies in Church History (volume 44, 2008). It examines the attempts made by an informal but determined coalition of clergy, artists and critics to revive the connection between church patronage and the contemporary arts. The two most prominent clergy were George…