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Reports of the death of British theatrical comedy? Greatly exaggerated or sadly accurate? (2018)
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accurate?. Comedy Studies, 9(1), 76-83. https://doi.org/10.1080/2040610X.2018.1437166

Are the twin masks of Tragedy and Comedy in the process of transformation? I am seeking in this paper to address challenging questions concerning the increasing disappearance of the 'serious' comedy, especially the satirical play on the UK stage... Read More about Reports of the death of British theatrical comedy? Greatly exaggerated or sadly accurate?.

Book Review published in Journal of Contemporary Drama in English (JCDE 4/2) (2016)
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Peters, L. (2016). Book Review published in Journal of Contemporary Drama in English (JCDE 4/2). Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, 4(2), 461-463. https://doi.org/10.1515/jcde-2016-0036

Review of: Margaret Inchley. Voice and New Writing, 1997 – 2000: 'Articulating the Demos' Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, vii + 204 pp., £55.00 (hardback), £55.25 (PDF ebook). Reviewed by Lloyd Peters, E ˗ Mail: L.Peters@salford.ac.uk D... Read More about Book Review published in Journal of Contemporary Drama in English (JCDE 4/2).

A Higher Education - a polemic (for a change) (2015)
Journal Article
Peters, L. (2015). A Higher Education - a polemic (for a change). Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 14(4), 313-317. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474022215591102

The Radio 4 comedy-drama A Higher Education was written in 1999 to present a satire of a dysfunctional and cash-strapped university (Northfield) led by the egotistical and amoral Head of Drama Don Crookfield (Rik Mayall). For those of us passionately... Read More about A Higher Education - a polemic (for a change).

The roots of alternative comedy? – the alternative story of 20th century coyote and eighties comedy (2013)
Journal Article
Peters, L. (2013). The roots of alternative comedy? – the alternative story of 20th century coyote and eighties comedy. Comedy Studies, 4(1), 5-21. https://doi.org/10.1386/cost.4.1.5_1

There have been many articles but too few rigorous critiques detailing the naissance and flowering of alternative comedy – a rather loose and undefined term for the brand of ‘non-racist, non-sexist’ comedy of the 1980s. The descriptions that do exist... Read More about The roots of alternative comedy? – the alternative story of 20th century coyote and eighties comedy.