Category Archives: William Shakespeare

Erica Sheen, Geopolitical Shakespeare: Western Entanglements from Internationalism to Cold War – Oxford University Press, March 2024

Posted on December 15, 2025 by stuartelden

Erica Sheen, Geopolitical Shakespeare: Western Entanglements from Internationalism to Cold War – Oxford University Press, March 2024 I missed this when it came out last year – thanks to Richard Ashby for the link. Shame about the price though. Geopolitical … Continue reading →

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Graham Holderness, Shakespeare and a Place Calling Itself Rome – Routledge, June 2025

Posted on September 22, 2025 by stuartelden

Graham Holderness, Shakespeare and a Place Calling Itself Rome – Routledge, June 2025

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Berfrois articles – a complete archive of my pieces for this much-missed site

Posted on September 17, 2025 by stuartelden

Between 2011 and 2022 I wrote eleven pieces for the much-missed Berfrois site. Most were reviews of recent books. Although the site closed to new submissions in 2022, I thought the archive would be preserved. I was therefore disappointed to … Continue reading →

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Berfrois articles – an archive of my pieces for this much-missed site

Posted on August 26, 2025 by stuartelden

Between 2011 and 2022 I wrote eleven pieces for the much-missed Berfrois site. Most were reviews of recent books. Although the site closed to new submissions in 2022, I thought the archive would be preserved. I was therefore disappointed to … Continue reading →

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Lucien Gerschel, Georges Dumézil, William Shakespeare and the history of Coriolanus 

Posted on August 17, 2025 by stuartelden

One of Georges Dumézil’s most loyal students was Lucien Gerschel. He seems to have begun attending his classes at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in 1937-38, but certainly was there for the 1938-39 course which became Dumézil’s 1940 book Mitra-Varuna. … Continue reading →

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Kathryn Vomero Santos, Shakespeare in Tongues – Routledge, June 2025

Posted on July 15, 2025 by stuartelden

Kathryn Vomero Santos, Shakespeare in Tongues – Routledge, June 2025 Shakespeare in Tongues interrogates the popular conflation of “the language of Shakespeare” with English by examining the role Shakespeare’s works have played in overlapping histories of colonialism, slavery, and migration that … Continue reading →

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Erica Moiah James, After Caliban: Caribbean Art in a Global Imaginary – Duke University Press, October 2025

Posted on July 12, 2025 by stuartelden

Erica Moiah James, After Caliban: Caribbean Art in a Global Imaginary – Duke University Press, October 2025 The introduction is available open access now. In After Caliban, Erica Moiah James examines the rise of global Caribbean artists in the 1990s and … Continue reading →

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Books received – Garber, Serres, Spanos, Bové & O’Hara, Trubetzkoy & Jakobson, Boulez

Posted on July 3, 2025 by stuartelden

Marjorie Garber, Shakespeare in Bloomsbury, now in paperback; Michel Serres, Hermes II: Interference; the older collection The Question of Textuality: Strategies of Reading in Contemporary American Criticism; Nikolai Trubetzkoy’s correspondence with Roman Jakobson in French translation; and Pierre Boulez’s lectures … Continue reading →

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Marjorie Garber, Shakespeare in Bloomsbury – Yale University Press, paperback May 2025

Posted on July 2, 2025 by stuartelden

Marjorie Garber, Shakespeare in Bloomsbury – Yale University Press, paperback May 2025 For the men and women of the Bloomsbury Group, Shakespeare was a constant presence and a creative benchmark. Not only the works they intended for publication—the novels, biographies, … Continue reading →

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Shakespeare and the Slovenian School of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: A Symposium – 14 June 2025, Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, Hampton, UK

Posted on June 5, 2025 by stuartelden

Shakespeare and the Slovenian School of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: A Symposium The Shakespeare in Philosophy series now has a website (https://shakespeareinphilosophy.org), and is on Bluesky (@shakespeareinphilo.bsky.social) and Facebook This year’s event takes place on 14 June 2025, back in Garrick’s … Continue reading →

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