Category Archives: William Shakespeare

Bingo – Shakespeare

Posted on February 18, 2012 by stuartelden

Went to see Edward Bond’s play Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death last night at the Young Vic. Very good, and especially interesting for the playing out of the tensions with the Enclosures Act – perhaps even more so than … Continue reading →

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At the Bottom of Shakespeare’s Ocean

Posted on February 14, 2012 by stuartelden

Having done some review work for Continuum, one of the books I asked for was Steve Mentz, At the Bottom of Shakespeare’s Ocean. The book had been sitting on my desk for a few days before I took it with … Continue reading →

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Patrick Stewart as Shakespeare

Posted on February 11, 2012 by stuartelden

I’m going to see Bingo: Scenes of Money or Death next week – looks good. Interview with Patrick Stewart here.

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Anachronic Shakespeare poster

Posted on February 9, 2012 by stuartelden
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Greenblatt, Shakespeare’s Freedom

Posted on February 9, 2012 by stuartelden

A sample of Stephen Greenblatt’s Shakespeare’s Freedom is freely available at Berfrois. Berfrois will also be publishing my short piece on the new Ralph Fiennes film Coriolanus sometime in the next couple of weeks.

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Anachronic Shakespeare programme

Posted on February 7, 2012 by stuartelden

Really looking forward to this… been promised a ‘sexy poster’ at some point, so this is just the text and details. Anachronic Shakespeare A Poetics and Theory Conference February 24-February 25, 2012 New York University Jurow Hall, Silver Center 100 … Continue reading →

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Coriolanus – Ralph Fiennes and the text

Posted on February 5, 2012 by stuartelden

I saw the Ralph Fiennes film version of Coriolanus while down in London this week. It’s good and worth seeing, though it has some problems, and does quite a lot of violence to the text (though not the plot) in the … Continue reading →

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Shakespeare cartoons

Posted on January 29, 2012 by stuartelden

Cliffs Notes have cartoon versions of six of Shakespeare’s plays, here. Currently Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Julius Caesar. Not to be taken too seriously… (Via Julia Reinhard Lupton’s Thinking with Shakespeare blog.)

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Slavoj Žižek on Ralph Fiennes’s film of Coriolanus

Posted on January 8, 2012 by stuartelden

Slavoj Žižek discusses Ralph Fiennes’s film of Coriolanus in the New Statesman (thanks to Paul Harrison for the link). Rather too much about 300, but some interesting comments. I am not convinced that Coriolanus is better than Hamlet. T.S. Eliot (who actually … Continue reading →

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Novels read in 2011 part 2

Posted on January 7, 2012 by stuartelden

Given the number of these that are not really novels, this list should probably be retitled ‘books I read that are not for work reasons…’ Not as many as the first half of the year, but that’s probably a product … Continue reading →

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