William Casey Caldwell

Academic Interests

Commons Groups

HC

Recent Commons Activity

started the topic Food/Beer in Private Theaters in the discussion Shakespeare
posted an update:
I’m curious whether people can recommend their go-to texts by C.S. Peirce on his semiotics. Say, what you’d use to teach it to undergrads? (I’m familiar with the general options, but was never taught his work on signs and find his oeuvre to be pretty confusing)
posted an update in the group Early Modern Theater:
Invite one and all, created this group because there wasn’t one already!

Education

Ph.D., Northwestern University, Early Modern Drama

MFA/M.Litt., Mary Baldwin University, Shakespeare and Performance Program in partnership with the American Shakespeare Center

MA, Philosophy, University of Auckland

BA, Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin

Blog Posts

Publications

Co-editor (2018–present): The Hare: An Online Journal of Untimely Reviews in Early Modern Theater, http://thehareonline.com/

“Brexit, Shylock, and Urban Citizenship.” In Brexit and Early Modern Drama, edited by Scott

Oldenburg and Matteo Pangallo. University of Alabama, forthcoming.

“Is The Merchant of Venice Critical for Prison Education?” In Carceral Shakespeare, edited by

Elizbeth Fox and Gina Hausknecht, under review with Routledge Press.

“‘Ye Pay All Alike:’ The Vice of Collecting Money in Mankind.” In Money and Magic in Early

Modern Drama, edited by David Hawkes. New York: The Arden Shakespeare, 2022.

“Shakespeare’s Henry V and the Ciphers of History,” SEL: Studies in English Literature, Spring 2021.

“The Comic Structure of the Globe: History, Direct Address, and the Representation of Laughter in a Reconstructed Playhouse.” Shakespeare Bulletin, vol. 31 no. 3, 2013, pp. 375-403.

Caldwell, W. C. & Kenny, A. “The Reconstructed Dramaturg.” Theatre Topics, vol. 24 no. 1, 2014, pp. 11-23

Memberships

Shakespeare Association of America

Carthage College