Shakespeare's Political Thought
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Shakespeare Bulletin 39.2 (2021): 286-90. Print.
Soviet Shakespeare. Ed. Tom Bishop, Alexa Alice Joubin, and Natalia Khomenko. Spec. Issue of The Shakespearean International Yearbook 18. London: Routledge, 2020. 203-16. Print.
The causal relationship between Lear's division of the kingdom and descent into madness has divided critics for centuries. This paper aims to illuminate the inherent connection between Lear’s mental state and the state of the kingdom... more
"Magda Romanska argues that with the rise of nationalism in late nineteenth-century Europe, the pattern of the patriarchal covenant in Hamlet paralleled the process of nation-building. Hamlet’s filial loyalty toward his Father’s ghost was... more
This paper will analyze the political setting of the play, and the actions, motives, and achievements of its political leaders, through the lens of Machiavellian, Lutheran, and Thomistic understandings of virtue. While Machiavelli helps... more
Abstract This paper presents ideas about how the ‘role of nature’ plays a great role for Shakespeare’s tragedy ‘King Lear’ and how ecocriticism goes with this tragedy. Role... more
Richard III centers on the rise and fall of a man who claims that he will “set the murderous Machiavel to school” and proceeds to seize the crown of England, only to lose his grip on that coveted prize in his own sudden personal and... more
A close reading of Richard II, 3.4 from a post-colonial, cultural materialist perspective.
A comparison of Othello with Shakespeare’s source, Cinthio’s The Moorish Captain. What emerges is a clear picture of Shakespeare’s elevation of political life and the sense of worth or desert that he, as opposed to Cinthio, considers... more
Shakespeare has been described as “standing at a juncture from whence three roads diverge”: roads leading respectively to classical, Christian, and early modern teachings on the nature and purpose of human life.1 That Shakespeare... more
Edited volume with chapters by John Alvis, George Anastaplo, Leon Craig, David Lowenthal, John Briggs, Paul Cantor, Glenn Arbery, Scott Crider, Carol McNamara, Laurence Nee, B. J. Dobski, and Carson Holloway. The works of William... more
Dr Pete Orford and his editing team have collected articles from the next generation of Shakespeare scholars to offer a glimpse into the future of Renaissance Studies. The essays included were presented at the International British... more
This article explores the manipulative power of gesture and the parallels Shakespeare draws with the performance of politics within the Roman society he presents in Julius Caesar, as well as its application to Elizabethan England. I look... more
Shakespeare 12.4 (2016): 465-67. Print.
Act 4, Scene 2 of Measure for Measure opens with one of the most morbidly comical episodes in Shakespeare’s blackest comedy. A careful consideration of the meaning of this macabre exchange and its enigmatic conclusion sheds light not only... more
Edited volume with contributions by B. J. Dobski, Dustin Gish, Timothy Spiekerman, and Peter Meilaender.
[Editor]. Re-presenting Shakespeare: Interpretations and Translations. Kalyani: University of Kalyani, 2002. ISBN 81-901525-1-3. Reviewed in Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance, Vol. 5 (20) (2009):... more
sobre shakespeare e a montagem de HAMLET e MACBETH no teatro vila velha - conceitos reflexões questões
“A Post-Colonial Reading of the Garden Scene in Richard II.” Contemporary Literary Criticism: Theory and Practice. Vol. 2. Ed. N. D. R. Chandra. Delhi: Authors Press, 2005. 341-55. [ISBN 81-7273-157-4]. Online:... more