Category Archives: William Shakespeare

Richard Wilson, Shakespeare’s Fascist Followers – Bloomsbury, August 2025

Posted on May 28, 2025 by stuartelden

Richard Wilson, Shakespeare’s Fascist Followers – Bloomsbury, August 2025 This book has been put back to August 2025, but looking forward to this. ‘Richard Wilson’s meticulously researched, powerfully argued and brilliantly written account of Shakespeare’s 20th-century fascist followers is not … Continue reading →

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Shakespeare and the Slovenian School of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: A Symposium – 14 June 2025, Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, Hampton, UK

Posted on May 13, 2025 by stuartelden

Shakespeare and the Slovenian School of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: A Symposium The Shakespeare in Philosophy series now has a website (https://shakespeareinphilosophy.org), and is on Bluesky (@shakespeareinphilo.bsky.social) and Facebook This year’s event takes place on 14 June 2025, back in Garrick’s … Continue reading →

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Richard III or Edward III? A small historical error in Foucault’s History of Madness – and his attempt to correct it

Posted on April 24, 2025 by stuartelden

There is a small historical error in Foucault’s History of Madness, which endures through the different French versions with the exception of Oeuvres, but which is corrected in one of the English versions. Yes, there are other errors, but I’m focused on … Continue reading →

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Ernst Kantorowicz and the California Loyalty Oath

Posted on February 16, 2025 by stuartelden

In 1950, the medieval historian Ernst Kantorowicz privately published, at his own expense, a short book entitled The Fundamental Issue. It cost him $425 – perhaps about $5000 today. It concerned a loyalty oath at the University of California, first proposed … Continue reading →

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Adam Zucker, Shakespeare Unlearned: Pedantry, Nonsense, and the Philology of Stupidity – Oxford University Press, 2024 and New Books discussion with Pamela Brown

Posted on January 6, 2025 by stuartelden

Adam Zucker, Shakespeare Unlearned: Pedantry, Nonsense, and the Philology of Stupidity – Oxford University Press, 2024 New Books discussion with Pamela Brown – thanks to dmf for the link Shakespeare Unlearned dances along the borderline of sense and nonsense in early … Continue reading →

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Rhodri Lewis, Shakespeare’s Tragic Art – Princeton University Press, October 2024

Posted on November 6, 2024 by stuartelden

Rhodri Lewis, Shakespeare’s Tragic Art – Princeton University Press, October 2024 In Shakespeare’s Tragic Art, Rhodri Lewis offers a powerfully original reassessment of tragedy as Shakespeare wrote it—of what drew him toward tragic drama, what makes his tragedies distinctive, and why … Continue reading →

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Kevin Curran, Shakespeare’s Theater of Judgment: Six Keywords – Edinburgh University Press, September 2024 (print and open access)

Posted on October 27, 2024 by stuartelden

Kevin Curran, Shakespeare’s Theater of Judgment: Six Keywords – Edinburgh University Press, September 2024 Available open access at the above link Part of the Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy series.

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 23: Emile Benveniste and Georges Dumézil at the Collège de France, and an article on Alexandre Koyré

Posted on September 9, 2024 by stuartelden

The chapter I’m currently working on for the Mapping Indo-European Thought project is a study of the two decades Benveniste and Dumézil were teaching in parallel at the Collège de France. I’ve been concentrating on Dumézil so far, but I plan to … Continue reading →

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Ben Haworth, Shakespeare’s Liminal Spaces: Contesting Authority on the Early Modern Stage – Manchester University Press, July 2024

Posted on August 8, 2024 by stuartelden

Ben Haworth, Shakespeare’s Liminal Spaces: Contesting Authority on the Early Modern Stage – Manchester University Press, July 2024 This engaging study appreciably advances recent critical developments in the way the playwright created his worlds to reflect concurrent cartographic, geopolitical and … Continue reading →

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Richard Wilson, Shakespeare’s Fascist Followers – Bloomsbury, February 2025

Posted on June 17, 2024 by stuartelden

Richard Wilson, Shakespeare’s Fascist Followers – Bloomsbury, February 2025 Very good to see this book scheduled. (update May 2025: it is now scheduled for August 2025. I’ve added the cover.) ‘Richard Wilson’s meticulously researched, powerfully argued and brilliantly written account … Continue reading →

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