The Soul of Statesmanship: Shakespeare on Nature, Virtue, and Political Wisdom
The Poet as Teacher of Statesmen This volume joins a growing chorus of scholars who approach Shakespeare as a political thinker.[1] The chapters that follow explore how…
The Poet as Teacher of Statesmen This volume joins a growing chorus of scholars who approach Shakespeare as a political thinker.[1] The chapters that follow explore how…
The Soul of Statesmanship: Shakespeare on Nature, Virtue, and Political Wisdom. Khalil M. Habib and L. Joseph Hebert, Jr., eds. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2018. In 2015…
Shakespeare’s comedies can generally be understood through their endings in marriage. In marriage, two particular individuals, with diverse and even opposing desires and interests, are reconciled as…
Consider a famous question asked at dinner parties: If you were stranded on a desert island and had only one book, what book would that be? The…
The aim of this article is to propose the notion that the spoudaios, spoudaic potential, and the spoudaic spectrum are constantly recurring figures in literary texts in…
Hamlet is a play so rich in insight regarding human existence, so revelatory and reverberative, that Harold Bloom is justified in calling it a “poem unlimited."[1][2] All…
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…
Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice has been interpreted in numerous ways that range from focusing on the roles of women and marriage to examining questions of justice…
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,…
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,…