Category Archives: William Shakespeare

David Tennant as Richard II @TheRSC – some thoughts

Posted on November 6, 2013 by stuartelden

I went to see Shakespeare’s Richard II in Stratford yesterday. David (Dr Who) Tennant was King Richard, but a very strong cast generally – Oliver Ford Davies as the Duke of York, Michael Pennington as John of Gaunt, Nigel Lindsay … Continue reading →

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Shakespeare Aloud! – Macbeth in Stratford

Posted on November 3, 2013 by stuartelden

I went to an interesting version of Macbeth in Stratford last night, performed by the Shakespeare Aloud! group, with only six actors. It was heavily cut, with most of the more political discussion scenes missing, but it kept the core of … Continue reading →

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More books received

Posted on October 30, 2013 by stuartelden

All from University of Chicago Press in recompense for some review work – some interesting books from Eric Santner, Cary Wolfe, Derrida, Tracy B. Strong, and a couple on political theology and/or Shakespeare.

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Shakespeare, Politics, Territory – a talk for prospective Warwick students

Posted on October 23, 2013 by stuartelden

On 21st October I gave a short talk to prospective students at the University of Warwick. These were students between the ages of 15 and 18. The topic, which was suggested for me, was ‘Shakespeare, Politics, Territory’. It’s pitched at … Continue reading →

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Speaking about Shakespeare in Stratford-upon-Avon

Posted on October 1, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ll be briefly talking about the Shakespearean territories project at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon on 11 October. Coals to Newcastle…

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Books received

Posted on September 27, 2013 by stuartelden

Two books for the Foucault project – a collection of pieces on the first volume of the History of Sexuality, and the only other volume of Les Vies Parallèles series Foucault initiated (the first was the Herculine Barbin memoir); David Harvey’s A … Continue reading →

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more on Critchley and Webster, The Hamlet Doctrine

Posted on September 25, 2013 by stuartelden

The Verso blog has some more links.

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Simon Critchley discusses Hamlet

Posted on September 21, 2013 by stuartelden

In The Guardian Simon Critchley discusses Hamlet – a preview of his recently published co-authored book The Hamlet Doctrine, with Jamieson Webster.

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Fionnuala O’Neill response to my The Geopolitics of King Lear

Posted on September 6, 2013 by stuartelden

In the same issue of Law and Literature that my paper “The Geopolitics of King Lear: Territory, Land, Earth” (free download) appears in, there is a piece by Fionnuala O’Neill entitled “Toward Tyranny: Geopolitics and Genre, A Response to Stuart Elden” (requires … Continue reading →

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Shakespeare in Stratford

Posted on September 4, 2013 by stuartelden

One of the things I was looking forward to about being in the Midlands again was the proximity to Stratford-on-Avon. Susan and I went to see Titus Andronicus at the end of August, and I’ve booked tickets for As You … Continue reading →

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