Category Archives: William Shakespeare

Stanley Cavell on Coriolanus and political readings

Posted on December 17, 2011 by stuartelden

Fortunately I got there on my own first, but this is why I was right to abandon my initial idea of a narrowly political reading of Coriolanus. In the critical discussions I have read so far, the psychoanalytic perspective has produced more … Continue reading →

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Shakespeare’s Coriolanus – political geographies, bodies and animals

Posted on December 15, 2011 by stuartelden

Having finished teaching, cleared a whole host of other things, got on top of journal work, put the Leibniz paper to rest, and still in limbo on another project, I was able to turn to a long-dormant idea yesterday. The … Continue reading →

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Coriolanus and contemporary politics

Posted on December 14, 2011 by stuartelden

Ralph Fiennes’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus is due for release in the UK early next year. It’s already out in the US. You can see a trailer here. Coriolanus is one of Shakespeare’s most political plays, and you can see … Continue reading →

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Quentin Skinner interview

Posted on December 12, 2011 by stuartelden

Very interesting interview with Quentin Skinner in The Art of Theory – part one and part two. If you’re even remotely interested in the history of ideas you should take a look. Among many other things, the discussion of Shakespeare and … Continue reading →

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Leibniz and geography

Posted on November 7, 2011 by stuartelden

Despite my Shakespearean distractions at the weekend, I had some time late last week and today to return to the ‘Another Leibniz’ paper I last worked on properly in September. The paper is something of a survey of Leibniz’s non-standard … Continue reading →

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Critchley on Hamlet in London

Posted on November 6, 2011 by stuartelden

Thanks to Rory Rowan for letting me know that Simon Critchley will be speaking about Hamlet in London on 29th November. Details here. (there is a video of his talk on this play – not sure if it is same … Continue reading →

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Shapiro on Shakespeare’s vocabulary

Posted on November 6, 2011 by stuartelden

I only finished the Greenblatt book this morning, but went straight onto another Shakespeare study. Here’s an interesting passage (the book it refers to by Crystal is Think on My Words: Exploring Shakespeare’s Language): No less groundless is the argument … Continue reading →

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Greenblatt on Shakespeare’s London

Posted on November 6, 2011 by stuartelden

With its crush of small factories, dockyards, and warehouses; its huge food markets, breweries, print shops, hospitals, orphanages, law schools, and guildhalls; its cloth makers, glassmakers, basket makers, brick makers, shipwrights, carpenters, tinsmiths, armorers, haberdashers, furriers, dyers, goldsmiths, fishmongers, booksellers, … Continue reading →

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End of October

Posted on October 28, 2011 by stuartelden

October has been a slog. I’ve now done half of my teaching for this academic year. In one month. Okay, this means that the rest of the year is going to be relatively easy on that front, but naturally there … Continue reading →

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Critchley on Hamlet

Posted on October 26, 2011 by stuartelden

Thomas posted this as a comment to an earlier post, but since many people read this in ways where comments don’t show up, I’m reposting here, and have embedded the video below. You can see Critchley’s lecture on Hamlet at … Continue reading →

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