In reaction to studies of Shakespearean appropriations that focused on violent and oppressive uses of Shakespeare’s cultural capital, recent scholarship has emphasized the constructive, collaborative nature of appropriations. In this essay, I argue that Jasper Fforde’s “Thursday Next” series, and particularly the fourth book Something Rotte…[Read more]

In the beginning of Paradise Regained, Milton states that the Son will “publish his God-like office.” I argue that the connotations of publication in this statement allow us to read the Son’s construction of his kingship as an analogue for Milton’s construction of his own authorship, and vice versa. By exploring a few aspects of Milton’…[Read more]