How might the work on gender in Twelfth Night be challenged by trans theory, narratives, and experience?

Covering the changes in Shakespeare editorial theory and practice over the decades between the publication of the Oxford Shakespeare (1986) and the New Oxford Shakespeare (2016), this article surveys a range of modern texts with different rationales and aimed at different readerships. The article has three sections: the imagery associated with…[Read more]

My aim in this essay is to draw together two areas of study from cinema and theatre. The first is the theory of popular genres, their evolutionary cycle, and their role in the industrial development of Hollywood in the first half of the twentieth century, as explored by theorists and historians of cinema. The second is the early modern genre of…[Read more]

В статье рассматривается идея экологии культуры, которая нашла отражение в работах Д. С. Лихачева, Н. Н. Моисеева и других исследователей. Отмечается, что культурная экология невозможна без обращения к прошлому, его сохранения и переосмысления, гармонического развития культурных феноменов. По мнению автора, наследие У. Шекспира и многочисленны…[Read more]

Programme Note for Donmar Theatre’s ‘Measure for Measure’, directed Josie Rourke, opens 10/18.

The article presents the concept of the project aimed at studying the influence of W. Shakespeare’s oeuvre on contemporary Russian culture. A special attention is paid to the analysis of specific features in the Russian reception of the Shakespearean legacy in the 20th–21st centuries in the interrelation of the national and global.

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The article comprises some results obtained during the first year of the “Development and Launching of Open Access Online Digital Tools for Comparative Thesaurus Analysis of Russian Translations of W. Shakespeare’s Works” project (www.shakespearecorpus.ru) supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (no. 17-04-12038в). The author specif…[Read more]

A focus on Launcelot Gobbo as middleman and unfaithful servant enables an expanded reading of discourses of economics in The Merchant of Venice. In addition to the mercantile modes of Antonio and Shylock, the play also includes a transactional perspective in Launcelot as well as Portia’s fantasy of cornucopia. The chapter is part of Linda…[Read more]

Engages with questions of historicism and presentism in the modern performance of early modern drama, and compares Ben Jonson with Alfred Hitchcock.

Suggests that we should consider the stage directions in Shakespeare’s early texts, particularly the 1623 Folio, as snippets of narrative or free indirect discourse, rather than as clues to or for performance.

Describes a previously unrecorded corrected proof sheet in a copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio (1623)

The 10 excerpts below represent my contribution to Marina Zurkow’s volume More&More (A Guide to the Harmonized System) (Punctum 2016).
More&More is an art and research project that explores the language and mechanics of global trade, container shipping, and the exchange of goods. It questions a mercantile structure that by necessity disallows t…[Read more]