Bart van Es

Scholar Bart van Es (born 7 June 1972) is an academician, tutor and lecturer at St Catherine's College, University of Oxford.

He is the author of such specialist critical books as Spenser's Forms of History, A Critical Companion to Spenser Studies, and, most recently, an investigation of the 'critically acclaimed' playwright Shakespeare and his relationship with the players of the King's Men, the eminent Shakespeare in Company. (His main area of criticism is on the English Poet Edmund Spenser.) After years of interviews with wartime survivors, van Es published in 2018 the life of a single Jewish child in hiding in Nazi-occupied Holland, The Cut Out Girl: a story of War and Family, Lost and Found, Penguin, 2018, ISBN 9780735222243.

Publications

• Words of the Renaissance and Her Critics, Phyllis Robinson. pp. 27–89, published by Wordsmith.