Category Archives: William Shakespeare

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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The Geopolitics of King Lear – pdf available

Posted on August 19, 2013 by stuartelden

My article ‘The Geopolitics of King Lear: Territory, Land, Earth’ has now been published in Law and Literature, Vol 25 No 2, pp. 147-65. You can download the article freely here. I’m impressed by the way the University of California Press allow … Continue reading →

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Steve Mentz on Sloterdijk

Posted on August 6, 2013 by stuartelden

English Professor Steve Mentz has an interesting post on how Sloterdijk relates to his book-in-progress Shipwreck and the Ecology of Globalization. I really enjoyed his earlier book At the Bottom of Shakespeare’s Ocean, so looking forward to his work on this question. … Continue reading →

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International Politics and Performance

Posted on June 3, 2013 by stuartelden

This has got to be the quickest edited collection I’ve ever been involved in. Routledge have a publication date for October, and I only submitted my chapter (on political bodies in Coriolanus) in mid-March.

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Foucault’s La grande étrangère – previously unpublished texts on literature

Posted on March 24, 2013 by stuartelden

A collection of Foucault’s writings on literature – La grande étrangère: À propos de littérature – has recently been published in France. It seems the ‘no posthumous publications’ injunction is well and truly abandoned. This volume includes pieces on Sade, … Continue reading →

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Books received

Posted on March 14, 2013 by stuartelden

Mainly in recompense for some review work for OUP for the Shakespeare project, but also an early Heidegger lecture course, Tim Cresswell’s Geographic Thought, the new issue of Society and Space, a journal I didn’t know before called CRIOS (Critica degli … Continue reading →

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Lectures in Newfoundland

Posted on March 12, 2013 by stuartelden

I’m giving a few lectures at Memorial University of Newfoundland next week. The main reason I am going is to give the George M. Storey lecture in the Humanities, but a few other events have been arranged including a visit to … Continue reading →

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How people die in Shakespeare’s tragedies

Posted on March 1, 2013 by stuartelden

via Biblioklept.

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The Political Bodies of Coriolanus

Posted on February 25, 2013 by stuartelden

The audio recording of my Politics, Philosophy and International Thought lecture at Aberystwyth University is available here. It’s a part of the planned Shakespearean Territories book, and this time I talked about Coriolanus – mainly the play but also the … Continue reading →

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