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1. Shakespeare, cultural materialism and the new historicism-2. Renaissance authority and its subversion, Henry IV and Henry V.- 3. This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine: The Tempest and the discourse of Colonialism. - 4. Transgressioon and surveillance in Measure for Measur…
"Anyone who has paid the entry fee to visit Shakespeare's Birthplace on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon - and there are some 700,000 a year who do so - might be forgiven for taking the authenticity of the building for granted. The house, as the official guidebooks state, wa…
"Anthropology is a notoriously polysemous term. Within a continental European academic context, it is usually employed in the sense of philosophical anthropology, and mainly concerned with exploring concepts of a universal human nature. By contrast, Anglo-American scholarship al…
Adapting Western Classics for the Chinese Stage presents a comprehensive study of transnational, transcultural, and translingual adaptations of Western classics from the turn of the twentieth century to present-day China in the age of globalization. Supported by a wide range of …
"Shakespeare's Tempest attracted countless anti-colonial writers during the period of decolonization in Africa and the Caribbean, and continues to offer rich material for writers and directors interested in the intimate and varied connections between war and empire. In her force…
This dissertation discusses the operatic mad scene of Ophelia (or, Ophélie) in Michel Carré, Jules Barbier, and Charles Ambroise Thomas’s 1868 Hamlet. Mad scenes have been widely studied in vocal performance, musicology, and feminist studies, with scholars such as Leslie C. Dunn…
“Unmoved Emotions in Shakespeare and Milton” challenges the longstanding understanding of the relation between emotion and morality as primarily one of motivation and action. On this view, emotions either serve morality by motivating virtuous actions or do the opposite by drivin…
The presence of disabled characters like blind Gobbo in The Merchant of Venice and epileptic Othello are handy physical metaphors for the failures of epistemology that occur in both plays. Disability is often construed as a sort of saboteur of knowledge—disability of all kinds i…
This dissertation, Signs That Save: Sacramental Matter and Agency in English Literature 1590–1660, explores the imaginative interplay between literature and material cultures of religion in Reformation-era England. Viewing that topic through a critical lens informed by new mater…
This project explores why the combination of cartography and drama is so explosive on the English Renaissance stage in the age of the “new geography.” Using poststructuralist theories that conceptualize maps as performances rather than inert representations, I argue for a more d…
This thesis analyzes, for the first time, how audiences have engaged with Shakespeare in both colonial and post-colonial Punjab, a state in India. It demonstrates how Shakespeare’s cultural mobility is dependent upon how target cultures re-semniotize his plays to accommodate ele…