Category Archives: William Shakespeare

Richard Wilson, Shakespeare’s Fascist Followers – Bloomsbury, September 2025; paperback April 2027

Posted on October 10, 2026 by stuartelden

Richard Wilson, Shakespeare’s Fascist Followers – Bloomsbury, September 2025; paperback April 2027 Pleased to see a paperback of this important book listed for April 2027. Here you can read my opening remarks to a roundtable celebrating the book at an … Continue reading →

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Books received – Bagnato, Mandrou, Ginzburg, Puaud, Favret-Saada, Wilson

Posted on September 30, 2026 by stuartelden

Andrea Bagnato, Terra Infecta: Disease and the Italian Landscape; Robert Mandrou, From Humanism to Science 1480-1700; Carlo Ginzburg, Fear Reverence Terror; David Puaud, Foucault avant Foucault: Archéologie d’une jeunesse, Jeanne Favret-Saada, L’impossible famille Rivière: Retour sur un triple meutre en 1835 … Continue reading →

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Bill Angus and Lisa Hopkins eds. Reading the Coastline in Shakespeare’s Britain – Edinburgh University Press, October 2026

Posted on September 30, 2026 by stuartelden

Bill Angus and Lisa Hopkins eds. Reading the Coastline in Shakespeare’s Britain – Edinburgh University Press, October 2026

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Books received – Dupuis-Déri, Drouet, Mbembe, Ginzburg, Connor, Lorenzini

Posted on August 5, 2026 by stuartelden

Mostly books I’ve mentioned here before – Francis Dupuis-Déri, Killer Althusser: The Banality of Men – trans. Mélissa Bull; Pascale Drouet, Shakespeare and the Denial of Territory: Banishment, Abuse of Power and Strategies of Resistance; Achille Mbembe, Brutalism; Carlo Ginzburg, Threads and Traces; … Continue reading →

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Pascale Drouet, Shakespeare and the Denial of Territory: Banishment, Abuse of Power and Strategies of Resistance – Manchester University Press, November 2021

Posted on July 14, 2026 by stuartelden

Pascale Drouet, Shakespeare and the Denial of Territory: Banishment, Abuse of Power and Strategies of Resistance – Manchester University Press, November 2021 I’m slow to notice this one, but looks interesting. My own Shakespearean Territories discusses related issues. This book … Continue reading →

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Georgina Lucas, Massacres in Early Modern Drama – Manchester University Press, May 2026

Posted on July 11, 2026 by stuartelden

Georgina Lucas, Massacres in Early Modern Drama – Manchester University Press, May 2026 Massacres in Early Modern Drama analyses the dynamically ambivalent meanings constructed by the language and action of massacre on the early modern stage. Informed by theories drawn … Continue reading →

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Introducing Richard Wilson’s Shakespeare’s Fascist Followers – text of a talk at Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, 27 June 2026

Posted on July 5, 2026 by stuartelden

These are my opening remarks to a roundtable celebrating Richard Wilson’s book Shakespeare’s Fascist Followers: Modern Friends, at an event on Shakespeare and British Inter-war Philosophy (1918-1939) held at Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare on 27 June 2026. A few lines … Continue reading →

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Isabel Karremann ed. Shakespeare / Space: Contemporary Readings in Spatiality, Culture and Drama – Bloomsbury, 2024, paperback December 2026

Posted on June 20, 2026 by stuartelden

Isabel Karremann ed. Shakespeare / Space: Contemporary Readings in Spatiality, Culture and Drama – Bloomsbury, 2024, paperback December 2026 Shakespeare / Space explores new approaches to the enactment of ‘space’ in and through Shakespeare’s plays, as well as to the material, cognitive and … Continue reading →

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Julia Kristeva’s Dostoyevsky – from Mikhail Bakhtin and Hans Holbein to psychoanalysis, religion and language 

Posted on June 7, 2026 by stuartelden

Julia Kristeva often references Fyodor Dostoyevsky in her work. She read him while growing up in Bulgaria, and continued after her move to France. She recalls her initial reading was against her father’s directive. As well as Dostoyevsky’s famous novels, … Continue reading →

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Books received – Sollers, Kristeva, Shakespeare, Storm, Andrew & Ungar

Posted on June 5, 2026 by stuartelden

Some books bought new or second-hand recently, including some for ‘Sunday History’ posts; the first two volumes of the Arden Shakespeare fourth series; and Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm, The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault and the Coils of Critical History, … Continue reading →

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