Tag Archives: history

Jean Howard: Playing History at the Rose

Posted on January 24, 2018 by kingstonshakespeareseminar

Jean Howard (Columbia University) gives the third plenary lecture at the Marlowe and Shakespeare conference that is titled Playing History at the Rose. The session is introduced and chaired by Alison Findlay. Abstract: This paper addresses what constitutes historical drama in … Continue reading →

Posted in KiSS, Marlowe and Shakespeare, Podcast archive | Tagged Alison Findlay, Christopher Marlowe, history, Jean Howard, politics, Rose Theatre | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in KiSS, Podcast archive, Shakespeare and the Uncanny | Tagged Antony and Cleopatra, Graham Holderness, history, illusion, Nicholas Owen, Nicholas Royle, priest holes, Richard II, Sonja Fielitz, the Uncanny, Twelfth Night | 1 Comment

Upcoming conference: Hegel & the Concept of World History

Posted on January 9, 2016 by kingstonshakespeareseminar

From The London Graduate School website (look there for up-dated info): Conference dates: April 14–15, 2016 Venue: Kingston University London Abstracts’ submission deadline: 10 January 2016 ORGANISERS HegeLab (Laboratorio di Studi Hegeliani, University of Eastern Piedmont) Centre for Research in Modern … Continue reading →

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KiSSiT WiP: Shakespearean Dialectics – from Hegel to Adorno, Dec 17

Posted on December 12, 2015 by kingstonshakespeareseminar

On Thursday December 17 (two days before Shakespeare and the State of Exception) KiSSiT Work-in-Progress will reconvene for a session entitled ‘Shakespearean Dialectics – from Hegel to Adorno’ with Christian Smith (Warwick) and Timo Uotinen (Royal Holloway) presenting. Christian’s paper … Continue reading →

Posted in KiSSiT, News | Tagged A Midsummer Night's Dream, Christian Smith, dialectics, G.W.F Hegel, history, Marxism, nature, Phenomenology of Spirit, psychoanalysis, Richard III, Science of Logic, the dialectic, Theodor W. Adorno, Timo Uotinen, WiP, Work-in-Progress | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Podcast archive, Shakespeare and Sovereignty | Tagged autonomy, Carl Schmitt, Christopher Pye, Cordelia, dialectics, economy, Edgar, exchange, history, justice, King Lear, law, nothing, recognition, Sovereignty, world | Leave a comment

Not enough of Shakespeare

Posted on November 13, 2015 by Timo Uotinen

Mina Shah wrote a thought-provoking column entitled Enough of Shakespeare, where she questions the reasons why Shakespeare is taught. She fully admits that her piece is not really about Shakespeare, he serves the role of a ‘scapegoat’. Shah’s real target … Continue reading →

Posted in Thinking through Shakespeare | Tagged Austerity, authority, conservative, death of the author, Finland, history, Kiernan Ryan, Mina Shah, Nelson Mandela, Olli Rehn, oppression, Othello, politics, racism, right-wing, Robben Island Bible, Roland Barthes, universality | Leave a comment

Finding the ‘body’ of Richard III

Posted on November 3, 2015 by Anna Ilona Rajala

The remains of Richard III were found under a car park in Leicester in 2012. Since then researchers (often through popular media) have tried to reinstate Richard’s lost glory by busting Tudor myths through scientific evidence. One of the myth busting methods, also seen in … Continue reading →

Posted in Thinking through Shakespeare | Tagged body, disability, history, medicine, physiotherapy, Richard III | 3 Comments

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 →

Posted in Podcast archive, Shakespeare and Sovereignty | Tagged Alfred the Great, Athelstan, englishness, Fisher King, Freemasons, Guy of Warwick, Henry VI, history, John Ford, national identity, Old Fortunatus, Samuel Rowlands, Sovereignty, The Welsh Embassador, Thomas Dekker, William Rowley | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in KiSS, Podcast archive, Shakespeare and Sovereignty | Tagged Alison Findlay, ceremony, disorder, editing Shakespeare, first tetralogy, folio, Giorgio Agamben, Graham Holderness, Henry VI part 1, Henry VI part 2, Henry VI part 3, history, history plays, Michael Hattaway, order, political theology, quarto, Sovereignty, subjectivity, Wars of the Roses | Leave a comment

Open lectures for Shakespeare and Scandinavia

Posted on September 18, 2015 by kingstonshakespeareseminar

This years big London Shakespeare event Shakespeare and Scandinavia will take place on 8 – 11 October 2015 at the Rose Theatre, Kingston-upon-Thames. With a great line-up of plenary speakers, all of whose lectures will be free and open to … Continue reading →