Category Archives: William Shakespeare

CRIPS annual lecture at Warwick

I’ll be giving the Critical International and Political Studies annual lecture at the University of Warwick in October 2012. It will be 10 years since I left the Politics and International Studies department at Warwick, and though I’ve been back for a few … Continue reading

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By Sovereignty of Nature: Ralph Fiennes’s Coriolanus

My piece on Coriolanus has now been published at Berfrois. [update: Julia Reinhard Lupton links to this from her valuable Thinking with Shakespeare blog – and in doing so describes me as a ‘progressive geographer’… I like it, and perhaps … Continue reading

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Bingo – Shakespeare

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

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

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

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Greenblatt, Shakespeare’s Freedom

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

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

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

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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