Category Archives: William Shakespeare

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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David Womersley, Thinking Through Shakespeare – Princeton University Press, March 2026 and New Books discussion

Posted on May 6, 2026 by stuartelden

David Womersley, Thinking Through Shakespeare – Princeton University Press, March 2026 New Books discussion with Morteza Hajizadeh – thanks to dmf for the link In the eighteenth century, Samuel Johnson famously argued that Shakespeare is enduringly popular because he “is above all … Continue reading →

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Shakespeare and Interwar British Philosophy (1918-1939) – 27 June 2026, Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, Hampton, UK

Posted on April 24, 2026 by stuartelden

Shakespeare and Interwar British Philosophy (1918-1939) – 27 June 2026, Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, Hampton, UK Tickets available via Eventbrite Famously described as the Twenty Years Crisis by the international relations historian E.H. Carr, the period between the First and Second … Continue reading →

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Arden Shakespeare fourth series – first three volumes scheduled

Posted on January 7, 2026 by stuartelden

Arden Shakespeare fourth series – first three volumes scheduled Julius Caesar, edited by Andrew James Hartley Titus Andronicus, edited by Curtis Perry and Ayanna Thompson As You Like It, edited by Tom Bishop The first two are scheduled for May, … Continue reading →

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My favourite academic books of 2025

Posted on January 1, 2026 by stuartelden

A list of academic books I liked published in 2025, or late 2024, or in paperback this year. Many of the books I read this year were published years ago; some of the 2025 ones I’ve bought or have been … Continue reading →

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