Category Archives: William Shakespeare

Books received – Freud, Yates, Wilson, Toal

Posted on March 29, 2017 by stuartelden

Two volumes of Freud for the Foucault work; Julian Yates, Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast: A Multi-Species Impression sent by the publisher; Richard Wilson’s Will Power: Essays on Shakespearean Authority; and Gerard Toal’s Near Abroad: Putin, the West and the Contest … Continue reading →

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The End of Term 2

Posted on March 27, 2017 by stuartelden

The Maynooth and Dublin events were the last of a sequence of talks. Over this term I also gave talks in London (SOAS, IHR, British Library), Durham, Oslo, and Kingston. Often invitations grew after acceptance – come to give a seminar, but also … Continue reading →

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Shakespeare’s Roman Tragedies by Toneelgroep Amsterdam at the Barbican

Posted on March 20, 2017 by stuartelden

Yesterday I attended one of the best theatrical experiences of my life – Shakespeare’s Roman Tragedies at the Barbican by Toneelgroep Amsterdam, directed by Ivo van Hove. In the last couple of weeks I’d already seen the first two instalments of … Continue reading →

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‘Measuring Territories: The Techniques of Rule’ – talk to Kingston Shakespeare seminar, Rose Theatre, 16 March 2017

Posted on March 13, 2017 by stuartelden

On Thursday I’ll be giving a talk at the Rose Theatre to the Kingston Shakespeare seminar, entitled ‘Measuring Territories: The Techniques of Rule’. It’s a version of Chapter 7 of my Shakespearean Territories manuscript. Speaking about Shakespeare in a theatre … Continue reading →

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Some thoughts on Andrew Scott as Hamlet at the Almeida

Posted on February 25, 2017 by stuartelden

There were many things I liked about the new production of Hamlet, at the Almeida theatre, starring Andrew Scott. Unfortunately, Andrew Scott wasn’t one of them. I found his Hamlet just too shouty, and ultimately not very sympathetic. There were … Continue reading →

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Books received – Lacan, Shakespeare, Freud, Nietzsche, Bambach and Kantorowicz

Posted on February 5, 2017 by stuartelden

Lacan’s Four Fundamental Concepts; the new Arden edition of Cymbeline; the translation of the first edition of Freud’s Three Essays; the 1964 proceedings of a conference on Nietzsche; an edited collection on Lacan’s first two seminars; Charles Bambach’s Thinking the Poetic Measure … Continue reading →

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One or Two King Lears? – review at Berfrois (open access)

Posted on January 4, 2017 by stuartelden

Update September 2025: the Berfrois site is now closed and the archive has been removed. My piece can now be found here. I have a long review of Brian Vickers’s The One King Lear, at the Berfrois website. It was one of … Continue reading →

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A year in review – talks, publications and writing, plus links to my ‘best-of’ lists

Posted on December 31, 2016 by stuartelden

I began 2016 with a lengthy manuscript on the 1969-75 period of Foucault’s work, partly developed from the large sections cut from the manuscript of Foucault’s Last Decade. The main task accomplished in the first part of this year was … Continue reading →

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Academic Books of 2016 – my personal list

Posted on December 24, 2016 by stuartelden

Many of the academic books I read this year were for the Foucault and Shakespeare work, and few were published this year. This alphabetical list is of the twenty books published this year which I read and liked the most. … Continue reading →

Posted in Bob Jessop, Etienne Balibar, Eugen Fink, Henri Lefebvre, Jacques Rancière, Judith Butler, Louis Althusser, Mark Neocleous, Michel Foucault, Pierre Macherey, Stephen Graham, Uncategorized, William Shakespeare | 12 Comments

From Our Fellows podcast 02, December 2016 – including a piece by me on Shakespeare and Territory

Posted on December 2, 2016 by stuartelden

The British Academy has begun a series of short podcasts where fellows talk about aspects of their work. I’m featured in the second of these, just released. The task was to speak about our work, but to keep to six minutes. … Continue reading →

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