I. Prospective and Perspective This article offers a revisualization of Jesus, not as a Christian diptych representing Jesus and Christ, the before-and-after-the-Crucifixion figures of conventional historical and…
1 Polonius commends a visiting troupe of players as “The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, [tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral,]” (II,ii,396-99).[1] We…
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,…
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…
After retiring early from my career as an independent consultant and returning to a career as an independent scholar, I have frequently reflected on my experience and…