'A Will to Believe' is a revised version of Kastan's 2008 'Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lectures', providing a provocative account of the ways in which religion animates Shakespeare's plays.
"On 19 December 1601, John Croke, then Speaker of the House of Commons, addressed his colleagues: "If a question should be asked, What is the first and chief thing in a Commonwealth to be regarded? I should say, religion. If, What is the second? I should say, religion. If, What …
'A Will to Believe' is a revised version of Kastan's 2008 'Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lectures', providing a provocative account of the ways in which religion animates Shakespeare's plays.
'A Will to Believe' is a revised version of Kastan's 2008 'Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lectures', providing a provocative account of the ways in which religion animates Shakespeare's plays.
"On 19 December 1601, John Croke, then Speaker of the House of Commons, addressed his colleagues: "If a question should be asked, What is the first and chief thing in a Commonwealth to be regarded? I should say, religion. If, What is the second? I should say, religion. If, What …
"What is the relation between who a person is, and what he or she has? A number of Shakespeare's plays engage with this question, elaborating a 'poetics of property' centering on questions of authority and entitlement, of inheritance and prodigality, and of the different opportu…
"What is the relation between who a person is, and what he or she has? A number of Shakespeare's plays engage with this question, elaborating a 'poetics of property' centering on questions of authority and entitlement, of inheritance and prodigality, and of the different opportu…
'Being and Having in Shakespeare' is a revised and expanded version of the 2010 Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lectures exploring the politics of authority and ownership in Shakespeare's plays.
Shakespeare's characters are thought to be his greatest achievement-imaginatively autonomous, possessed of depth and individuality, while his plots are said to be second-hand and careless of details of time and place. This view has survived the assaults of various literary theor…
Shakespeare's characters are thought to be his greatest achievement-imaginatively autonomous, possessed of depth and individuality, while his plots are said to be second-hand and careless of details of time and place. . This view has survived the assaults of various literary the…