Category Archives: William Shakespeare

Martin Procházka (ed.), Shakespeare to Autofiction: Approaches to authorship after Barthes and Foucault, UCL Press, April 2024 (open access)

Posted on May 4, 2024 by stuartelden

Martin Procházka (ed.), Shakespeare to Autofiction: Approaches to authorship after Barthes and Foucault, UCL Press, April 2024 (open access) From Shakespeare to Autofiction focuses on salient features of authorship throughout modernity, ranging from transformations of oral tradition and the roles of … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 15: A first trip to the Paris archives since the spring and more archive work in the UK

Posted on November 30, 2023 by stuartelden

I’m now back at work full time, though very grateful to be free of teaching and administrative duties, and I am feeling much better and more like myself. I was in Paris for two weeks this month, which was the … Continue reading →

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Todd Andrew Borlik, Shakespeare Beyond the Green World – Oxford University Press, January 2023

Posted on October 24, 2023 by stuartelden

Todd Andrew Borlik, Shakespeare Beyond the Green World: Drama and Ecopolitics in Jacobean Britain – Oxford University Press, January 2023 Part of the Early Modern Literary Geographies series – just an expensive hardback at present Unpicking the ecopolitics of Shakespeare’s … Continue reading →

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Thinking about Shakespeare and Film, 2 September 2023

Posted on August 3, 2023 by stuartelden

Thinking about Shakespeare and Film, 2 September 2023 Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, Hampton Court Road, Hampton TW12 2EJ registration free but required – Eventbrite page Provisional Schedule Session 1 10:00  Katrin Truestedt (ZfL Berlin), ‘Politics of Appearing: Pulcinella & Ophelia … Continue reading →

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Urban Nature podcast episode 4: Stuart Elden and Gabriel Kozlowski

Posted on May 2, 2023 by stuartelden

Urban Nature episode 4: Stuart Elden and Gabriel Kozlowski I was pleased to be Gabriel’s guest on the Urban Nature podcast for a discussion of several different aspects of my work – on territory, terrain, Lefebvre, Foucault, Shakespeare and even … Continue reading →

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Stuart Elden, ‘Editing Georges Dumézil’s Mitra-Varuna’, Berfrois, December 2022

Posted on December 16, 2022 by stuartelden

I have a short piece at Berfrois, ‘Editing Georges Dumézil’s Mitra-Varuna‘. Sadly Berfrois is closing, so I want to thank Russell Bennetts and the team for their work, for being continually interesting, and for hosting several pieces of my writing … Continue reading →

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Indo-European thought project update 6: beginning the Leverhulme fellowship, my self-imposed guidelines for writing and time-discipline, and some summer cycling and writing

Posted on October 7, 2022 by stuartelden

I’m in the incredibly privileged position of beginning a Leverhulme major research fellowship this week, to work on the Indo-European thought in Twentieth-Century France project. As a note to myself, I’m going to try to work with the guidelines I set myself seven years … Continue reading →

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William M. Hawley, Shakespeare’s Theory of International Relations: Diplomacy, Romance, and Aesthetics – Cambridge Scholars, August 2022

Posted on September 6, 2022 by stuartelden

William M. Hawley, Shakespeare’s Theory of International Relations: Diplomacy, Romance, and Aesthetics – Cambridge Scholars, August 2022 This book treats William Shakespeare’s romances as international relations (IR) theory plays depicting paths to peace abroad, showing that the playwright sounds the … Continue reading →

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Jacques Derrida, Perjury and Pardon Volume 1, translated by David Wills – University of Chicago Press, September 2022

Posted on September 5, 2022 by stuartelden

Jacques Derrida, Perjury and Pardon Volume 1, translated by David Wills – University of Chicago Press, September 2022 An inquiry into the problematic of perjury, or lying, and forgiveness from one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought project update 4: Editing and Introducing Dumézil’s Mitra-Varuna, and working with Foucault’s Lecture Courses 

Posted on July 11, 2022 by stuartelden

Editing Georges Dumézil’s Mitra-Varuna has taken far longer than I expected, but I think the text of the book is now complete. The major challenge, as I’ve indicated before, was the process of checking, completing and sometimes correcting Dumézil’s references. I’ve been mainly … Continue reading →

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