Category Archives: William Shakespeare

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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Martin Procházka (ed.), Shakespeare to Autofiction: Approaches to authorship after Barthes and Foucault, UCL Press, April 2024 (open access)

Posted on May 4, 2024 by stuartelden

Martin Procházka (ed.), Shakespeare to Autofiction: Approaches to authorship after Barthes and Foucault, UCL Press, April 2024 (open access) From Shakespeare to Autofiction focuses on salient features of authorship throughout modernity, ranging from transformations of oral tradition and the roles of … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 15: A first trip to the Paris archives since the spring and more archive work in the UK

Posted on November 30, 2023 by stuartelden

I’m now back at work full time, though very grateful to be free of teaching and administrative duties, and I am feeling much better and more like myself. I was in Paris for two weeks this month, which was the … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexandre Koyré, Aurel Stein, Emile Benveniste, Georges Bataille, Georges Dumézil, Mapping Indo-European Thought in Twentieth Century France, Marcel Mauss, Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, William Shakespeare | Leave a comment

Todd Andrew Borlik, Shakespeare Beyond the Green World – Oxford University Press, January 2023

Posted on October 24, 2023 by stuartelden

Todd Andrew Borlik, Shakespeare Beyond the Green World: Drama and Ecopolitics in Jacobean Britain – Oxford University Press, January 2023 Part of the Early Modern Literary Geographies series – just an expensive hardback at present Unpicking the ecopolitics of Shakespeare’s … Continue reading →

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Thinking about Shakespeare and Film, 2 September 2023

Posted on August 3, 2023 by stuartelden

Thinking about Shakespeare and Film, 2 September 2023 Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, Hampton Court Road, Hampton TW12 2EJ registration free but required – Eventbrite page Provisional Schedule Session 1 10:00  Katrin Truestedt (ZfL Berlin), ‘Politics of Appearing: Pulcinella & Ophelia … Continue reading →

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Urban Nature podcast episode 4: Stuart Elden and Gabriel Kozlowski

Posted on May 2, 2023 by stuartelden

Urban Nature episode 4: Stuart Elden and Gabriel Kozlowski I was pleased to be Gabriel’s guest on the Urban Nature podcast for a discussion of several different aspects of my work – on territory, terrain, Lefebvre, Foucault, Shakespeare and even … Continue reading →

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Stuart Elden, ‘Editing Georges Dumézil’s Mitra-Varuna’, Berfrois, December 2022

Posted on December 16, 2022 by stuartelden

Update September 2025: the Berfrois site is now closed and the archive has been removed. My piece can now be found here. I have a short piece at Berfrois, ‘Editing Georges Dumézil’s Mitra-Varuna‘. Sadly Berfrois is closing, so I want … Continue reading →

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Indo-European thought project update 6: beginning the Leverhulme fellowship, my self-imposed guidelines for writing and time-discipline, and some summer cycling and writing

Posted on October 7, 2022 by stuartelden

I’m in the incredibly privileged position of beginning a Leverhulme major research fellowship this week, to work on the Indo-European thought in Twentieth-Century France project. As a note to myself, I’m going to try to work with the guidelines I set myself seven years … Continue reading →

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