Category Archives: Shakespeare and Sovereignty

Shakespeare and Sovereignty series podcasts from Autumn 2015.

Jeffrey Knapp: Hamlet and the Sovereignty of Reasons -podcast

Posted on December 15, 2015 by kingstonshakespeareseminar

Listen to Jeffrey Knapp‘s excellent talk on the Sovereignty of Reasons – here. Knapp discusses how the understanding the world and its reasons is linked to subjective sovereignty but also how the sovereign is dependent on their subjects or being … Continue reading →

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Howard Caygill: Laertes’ Revolt and the Limits of Popular Sovereignty -podcast

Posted on December 7, 2015 by kingstonshakespeareseminar

Listen to Howard Caygill‘s insightful lecture here. He explores the impact of popular sovereignty in Hamlet as it seems a necessary component to Shakespeare’s play. Claudius’ sovereignty is ambiguous not only because of Hamlet but also due to Laertes and … Continue reading →

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Christopher Pye: ‘King Lear, Sovereignty, and the Condition of Justice’ – podcast

Posted on November 29, 2015 by kingstonshakespeareseminar

Listen to Christopher Pye‘s extraordinary talk here. He discussed sovereignty in King Lear relating it to autonomy, the self, the state, and the world. Focusing on Cordelia’s ‘nothing’ and Edgar’s ‘I nothing am’, he opens up the relationship of power to … Continue reading →

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Lisa Hopkins: ‘Athelstan the Virgin King’ -podcast

Posted on October 30, 2015 by kingstonshakespeareseminar

Lisa Hopkins‘ fantastic talk can be listened to here. She discussed the figure of Athelstan in Early modern drama, especially in Guy of Warwick by Samuel Rowlands, Old Fortunatus by Thomas Dekker, and The Welsh Embassador by Dekker, John Ford, … Continue reading →

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Barton / Hall Wars of the Roses Adaptation – panel podcast

Posted on October 18, 2015 by kingstonshakespeareseminar

Here is the recording of the panel on the John Barton and Peter Hall Wars of the Roses adaptation with Stuart Hampton-Reeves, Dominique Goy-Blanquet, Heather Neill, and Alex Waldmann. Frank Whately, emeritus Professor at Kingston University and one of the … Continue reading →

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Shakespeare’s Wars of the Roses with Graham Holderness, Alison Findlay and Michael Hattaway -podcast

Posted on October 5, 2015 by kingstonshakespeareseminar

Here is the podcast of the first KiSS Shakespeare and Sovereignty session. Graham Holderness started us off with discussing how Shakespeare’s first tetralogy becomes the trilogy of the Wars of the Roses and how this relates to order and disorder, … Continue reading →