Category Archives: William Shakespeare

Hamlet: three productions and three texts

Posted on April 27, 2016 by stuartelden

I’ve now seen Hamlet five times in the last year, and three times in the last five weeks. Last year I saw Peter Sarsgaard in New York and Benedict Cumberbatch at the Barbican in London (my thoughts here and here). … Continue reading →

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A weekend of Shakespeare – the Globe-to-Globe Hamlet and Kings of War

Posted on April 26, 2016 by stuartelden

Most people will have noticed, especially those in the UK, that last weekend was a celebration of the work of Shakespeare – 400 years since his death (and 452 since his birth if the dates do indeed coincide). Many thanks for all … Continue reading →

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Books received – Arden Shakespeare and Stuff Theory

Posted on April 18, 2016 by stuartelden

I recently did some review work for Bloomsbury, and asked for a number of the revised editions of the Arden Shakespeare; the one volume I didn’t already have; and Maurizia Boscagli’s Stuff Theory, in recompense.

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Books received – Foucault, Shakespeare, Alio, Farge, Spriet

Posted on April 10, 2016 by stuartelden

Some recent books bought – most for the Shakespeare work, but a few Foucault-related. Eliane Alio worked with Foucault at the Collège de France, and was an assistant on the book he wrote with Arlette Farge. Foucault’s book with Farge … Continue reading →

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Autumn and Winter 2016-17 talks – Foucault, Shakespeare and Terrain

Posted on March 31, 2016 by stuartelden

My attempt at keeping the diary clear of talks between January and September this year is just about holding. The last seminar I gave was on Foucault and health research and activism in January, and with the exception of three small … Continue reading →

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Terry Eagleton’s introduction to Victor Kiernan’s Eight Tragedies of Shakespeare

Posted on March 19, 2016 by stuartelden

Terry Eagleton’s introduction to Victor Kiernan’s Eight Tragedies of Shakespeare is available to read on the Zed books blog. The seventeenth century saw the brief flowering of tragic drama across Western Europe. And in the plays of William Shakespeare, this … Continue reading →

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Books received – Butler, Gillies, Iovino, GeoHumanities, New Perspectives, The Funambulist

Posted on March 18, 2016 by stuartelden

Books received – Judith Butler’s Notes toward a Performative Theory of Assembly, John Gillies, Shakespeare and the Geography of Difference, Serenella Iovino, Ecocriticism and Italy (sent by the publisher), and recent issues of GeoHumanities, New Perspectives, and The Funambulist.

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Shakespeare, Richard II query

Posted on March 16, 2016 by stuartelden

I’m trying to decipher a hand-written bibliography of books on Shakespeare, and one entry reads: “Sprich, Shakespeare, Richard II (1970)”. I can’t find such a book, so am assuming that ‘Sprich’ is not correct. The handwriting is poor, so it … Continue reading →

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Books received – Extraterritorialities, Elemental Ecocriticism, State Phobia and Civil Society and Shakespeare

Posted on March 8, 2016 by stuartelden

A pile of recent books. I have a chapter in Extraterritorialities in Occupied Worlds; Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Lowell Duckert’s collection Elemental Ecocriticism, and Mitchell Dean and Kaspar Villadsen’s State Phobia and Civil Society were both sent by publishers, and … Continue reading →

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Books received – Shakespeare, Foucault, Jessop

Posted on February 9, 2016 by stuartelden

A pile of recently received books – mainly bought for the Shakespeare project, plus Foucault’s 1980 lectures About the Beginning of the Hermeneutic of the Subject and Bob Jessop’s The State: Past, Present, Future in recompense for review work. The text at the … Continue reading →

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