Neo-Donatists in Eden
Ed Simon on what to think of immoral artists Edmund Spenser knew how to turn a phrase. His vision, exemplified by his epic The
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Shakespeare
“The Rights and Wrongs of Resistance”: Shakespeare and Politics
Andrew S. Brown on Peter Lake’s How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage On February 7, 1601, William Shakespeare was enlisted into a
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Shakespeare’s Bodies Onstage
A review of Early Modern Actors & Shakespeare’s Theatre: Thinking with the Body I think most of my students don’t find Shakespeare very
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Shakespeare Contra Nietzsche by Andrew Lanham
In the 400 years since Shakespeare’s death, one of his most influential afterlives has been in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, who thought
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Elizabethan and Jacobean Religious Controversies (the rest is silence) – By Sean Henry
Sean Henry on Peter Iver Kaufman’s Religion Around Shakespeare On 24th August, 1572, the feast of St. Bartholomew, the people of Paris rose up and
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