Category Archives: William Shakespeare

Steve Mentz on a one-man Chinese King Lear

Posted on June 30, 2012 by stuartelden

Review here.

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Next things to do

Posted on June 26, 2012 by stuartelden

The manuscript for The Birth of Territory, the image files and all the permissions paperwork went to University of Chicago Press yesterday. Of course, there are still copy-editing queries, proofs, index, cover discussions, marketing questionnaires and so on to come, but … Continue reading →

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Coriolanus in Edinburgh

Posted on June 22, 2012 by stuartelden

Full details of my talk on Coriolanus in Edinburgh on 2nd July, just before the RGS-IBG conference, have been posted at the Bodies in Movement site. My talk is entitled ‘Bellies, Wounds, Infections, Animals, Territories: The Political Bodies of Coriolanus‘.

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Coriolan/us in Wales

Posted on June 7, 2012 by stuartelden

This looks interesting – a site-specific Coriolanus, after Shakespeare and Brecht, in a hangar at RAF St Athan, Wales in August. These are the same people who did  a version of Aeschylus, The Persians in the Brecon Beacons. Review here. Thanks to … Continue reading →

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Julius Caesar in jail and Africa

Posted on June 7, 2012 by stuartelden

Two recent reimaginings of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. One is set in an Italian jail and the other in modern Africa. The first is the film Cesare deve morire/Caesar Must Die: Review here. The second is a Royal Shakespeare Company version … Continue reading →

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BBC to air Shakespeare tetralogy

Posted on June 6, 2012 by stuartelden

The BBC will be showing new versions of Richard II, the two parts of Henry IV, and Henry V later this year. Some details including casts, directors, etc. here, here and here. Should be interesting: while Henry V has had … Continue reading →

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Marking finished

Posted on May 27, 2012 by stuartelden

Finally finished marking. Over the past month or so it’s been a lot of essays; 10 dissertations on topics from Portuguese music to Terry Pratchett novels to the war on terror; and 180 exam papers. These have been interspersed with quite … Continue reading →

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Folger Shakespeare e-texts

Posted on May 18, 2012 by stuartelden

The Folger Shakespeare Library, in co-operation with Simon & Schuster, is pleased to announce the release of the texts of its celebrated Folger Shakespeare Editions. The texts of the plays themselves, minus glosses, notes and interpretive material, will be available … Continue reading →

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Eric Santner – The Royal Remains

Posted on May 11, 2012 by stuartelden

I previously knew Santner’s work from his study of Sebald, On Creaturely Life. This more recent book covers similar ground to the Manow book I mentioned a few days ago – the persistence of the ‘two bodies’ idea explored by … Continue reading →

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Political Theology and Early Modernity

Posted on May 6, 2012 by stuartelden

Interesting looking collection edited by Graham Hammill and Julia Reinhard Lupton, with a postface by Etienne Balibar. Political theology is a distinctly modern problem, one that takes shape in some of the most important theoretical writings of the twentieth and … Continue reading →

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