Discusses Shakespeare’s Richard II and questions of censorship and editorial control

Review of the opening season of the Sam Wanamaker playhouse, London – The Knight of the Burning Pestle and The Duchess of Malfi

Discusses the invention of Shylock’s Jewishness as a reaction to Sir Henry Irving’s popular Victorian production

This article argues that King Learn can help re-shape ecocriticism. The play’s focus on human dis-harmony with the nonhuman environment resonates with the “post-equilibrium shift” in ecological thinking. The play’s emphasis on the way natural systems such as the weather disrupt human meaning-making generates an alternative to dualistic notions of…[Read more]

A reading of sand, swamp, and shit in terms of a “brown” ecological vision, with reference to Spenser’s Amoretti 75, Bunyon’s Pilgrim’s Progress, Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, and Borges’s Chinese Encyclopedia, among others.

This is the abstract of a paper presented at the 9th European Shakespeare Research Association Congress, July 27–30, 2017, University of Gdańsk, Poland (Panel 10: “National Repositories of Shakespeare Translations: (Dis)assembling the Black Box”).