To see the world in a grain of sand is, in editing Shakespeare, to inspect the implications of different pronouns at III, iii, 96-7 (TLN 1696-7), in…
The spring 2016 issue of Shakespeare Quarterly (67.1) updates the state of early modern race study in Shakespeare. Guest editors Peter Erickson (Northwestern) and Kim F. Hall…
Let me begin by declaring that, unlike my fellow colleagues, who are college professors, I am an independent, unaffiliated scholar. My status entitles me to quip that,…
Honor in Political and Moral Philosophy. Peter Olsthoorn. Albany, New York: SUNY Press, 2015. Brutus: I would not, Cassius, yet I love [Caesar] well. But wherefore…
Surviving the State, Remaking the Church: A Sociological Portrait of Christians in Mainland China. Li Ma and Jin Li. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications (Wipf and Stock Publishers),…
To a large extent I appreciate Thomas Varacalli’s review of my book Towards a Science of States: their Evolution and Properties. Most important, perhaps, is that we…
Imagine a smoking cauldron rising from the trapdoor of the Globe’s center stage as you hear echoes of thunder from the attics. Three bearded men cloaked in…
1 The study of sources and influences suffers a bad reputation in Shakespearean scholarship, for the most part, deservedly so. Earlier generations of scholars too much entangled…
Shakespeare after Theory. David Scott Kastan. New York: Routledge, 1999. Theory is dead—if the title is the message of David Scott Kastan, English professor at Columbia University,…
Shakespeare’s Unorthodox Biography: The Epitome of Anti-Stratfordian Scholarship. Diana Price. Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2000. 1: Overview I do not care who wrote the plays conventionally attributed,…
Questions about the Question To my students who asked me whether Shakespeare wrote the plays attributed to him, I answered, no: they were written by another man…
This week, the Trump Administration proposed a $14-billion cut in funding to USAID and other State Department programs designed to help struggling economies around the world. In…
In 1925, Hannah Arendt was a nineteen-year-old philosophy student at the University of Marburg. She kept a journal, one fragment of which is titled “Shadows.” It traces…
Ideology is a highly misunderstood concept. People use it all the time to describe what, or more precisely, how they think despite the fact that they may…
I should have put a question mark behind the title of my essay in order to signify that the intention to investigate existential roots of apocalyptic violence…