Category Archives: William Shakespeare

Interview with Simon Critchley – ‘The Tragic and its Limits’

Posted on November 6, 2012 by stuartelden

Interesting interview with Simon Critchley at The White Review. There is a quite a bit of discussion of his forthcoming co-authored book The Hamlet Doctrine.

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New books received

Posted on October 15, 2012 by stuartelden

Some recently received books – mainly from University of Georgia Press in recompense for review work; an old and a new book bought from Verso; Kant’s Natural Science for review; and a copy of the Babel2  Diritto alla città collection … Continue reading →

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Shakespearean Territories at Warwick – audio available

Posted on October 8, 2012 by stuartelden

The lecture at Warwick on Wednesday last week was well attended – people sitting on the floor, even – and there were some interesting questions. Nice to see some old friends and colleagues, though this was largely a PhD student led event. I’ve … Continue reading →

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New books received

Posted on September 19, 2012 by stuartelden

A pile of new books received recently. Foucault’s Mal faire, dire vrai is probably the first I will tackle. The Polity ones here were in recompense for a review of a manuscript for them; Alex Jeffrey kindly sent me a copy … Continue reading →

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Reading Shakespeare in Nigeria

Posted on September 19, 2012 by stuartelden

I’ve was in Nigeria again the last ten days. It’s not exactly a place for a holiday so when Susan was working in the week I was working hard on the Shakespearean Territories project. I’ve been combining reading plays I … Continue reading →

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Poster and Website for Warwick ‘Shakespearean Territories’ lecture

Posted on September 14, 2012 by stuartelden

The abstract for my lecture at University of Warwick has been posted online. They’ve also produced this poster.  It will be ten years almost to the day that I left the department, though I’ve been back a few times to give talks or … Continue reading →

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Forthcoming talks

Posted on September 6, 2012 by stuartelden

Several talks for the 2012/13 academic year have been arranged. Two lectures have been in the diary for a while – the Critical International and Political Studies annual lecture at the University of Warwick in October (abstract here), and the George M. … Continue reading →

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‘Shakespearean Territories’ – abstract for Warwick

Posted on September 5, 2012 by stuartelden

This is my abstract for the Critical International and Political Studies annual lecture, University of Warwick, October 3rd 2012. This lecture shows how Shakespeare’s plays can help us to think about the multi-faceted nature of territory as word, concept and … Continue reading →

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Recent Shakespeare reading

Posted on September 4, 2012 by stuartelden

Working on my paper for Warwick in October. Hamlet, Macbeth and possibly something on Othello.

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Shakespeare and War

Posted on August 30, 2012 by stuartelden

Derek Gregory has followed up his post on Theatre of/and War with one on Shakespeare and War. Lots of good reading suggestions in both. I’d also suggest Simon Barker, War and Nation in the Theatre of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries. Derek kindly … Continue reading →

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