Bill Angus

Dr Bill Angus is a freelance writer and literature academic from Auckland, New Zealand. He has published widely on Shakespeare, early modern drama, metadrama and the material conditions that generate it, on the artefacts of protection from evil and on the historical mythology of popular music.

His last academic monograph A History of Crossroads in Early Modern Culture has been described as ‘a rich and fascinating exploration of the symbolic potential of the uncanny points at which roads simultaneously meet and diverge, showing that whether as places for selling one’s soul, burying the outcast dead, or encountering the supernatural, crossroads in the early modern imagination were charged and dangerous.’