Category Archives: Shakespeare and the Uncanny

François Laroque: ‘These Late Eclipses: Shakespeare’s uncanny stars’ -podcast

Posted on April 9, 2016 by kingstonshakespeareseminar

Listen to the great talk and engaged discussion from François Laroque‘s ( Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3) talk ‘These Late Eclipses: Shakespeare’s uncanny stars’. He explores astrological imagery and symbolism in three different examples of the influence from uncanny stars – … Continue reading →

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Sonja Fielitz: ‘Duke of Dark Corners: Shakespeare and the Catholic uncanny’ -podcast

Posted on March 20, 2016 by kingstonshakespeareseminar

Listen to the ‘Duke of Dark Corners’ by Sonja Fielitz (University of Marburg) here.  While discussing the visual (and spatial) uncanny, she takes us on a journey from Nicholas Royle and Nicholas Owen, the builder of priest holes, to Shakespeare … Continue reading →

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Simon Ryle: ‘Bre(e/a)ch: Macbeth and the language of terror’ -podcast

Posted on March 12, 2016 by kingstonshakespeareseminar

Listen to Simon Ryle‘s stimulating lecture on Macbeth and media theory here. He talks how terror arrives with the failing media interface, how the play innovates a ‘poetics of the letter’ that registers and disrupts the technics of terror, and … Continue reading →

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Arthur Bradley: ‘Untimely Ripp’d: Macbeth’s children’ -podcast

Posted on March 2, 2016 by kingstonshakespeareseminar

Listen here for Arthur Bradley‘s insightful talk on Macbeth and time. Discussing temporicide or time killing with sovereignty, unbearable life, and classic criticism from L.C. Knights and Cleanth Brooks, Bradley makes thought provoking links to the death of Czar Nikolai … Continue reading →

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Nicholas Royle: ‘Shakespeare’s Foreplay’ -podcast

Posted on February 10, 2016 by kingstonshakespeareseminar

Here is a fantastic talk from Nicholas Royle (Sussex), the first in the KiSS Shakespeare and the Uncanny series. He delves into duality of Shakespearean foreplay, touching on Freud, the Uncanny and ‘wordlife’ – as well as Romeo and Juliet and Antony and … Continue reading →

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