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From a Corrupt Eden to Bio-power: War and Nature in the Henriad
Educated Shrews: Shakespeare, Women’s Education and Its Backlash
Mrs Shakespeare’s New Face(t)s
Wheeling Strangers of Here and Everywhere. Present Issues of Integration and the Early Modern Crisis of Conversion
Shakespeare and the Origins of European Culture Wars
Towards a Critical Reevaluation of The Rape of Lucrece
Crises of Our Time in Song of the Goat Theatre’s Island
‘A Pause for Po-Ethics’: Seamus Heaney and the Ethics of Aesthetics
In this paper, I examine the connections between ethics and aesthetics in the writing of Seamus Heaney. Looking at Heaney&rsquo / s neologism of &lsquo / po-ethics&rsquo / , I move through his poetry and especially his translation of Sophocles&rsquo / Philoctetes, entitled The Cure at Troy, and focus on his Fourth Irish Human Rights Commission Annu...
Cross-Cultural Casting in Britain: The Path to Inclusion, 1972-2012
Published in Multicultural Shakespeare
This essay uses three productions to chart the progress of the integration of performers of African and Afro-Caribbean descent in professional British Shakespearean theatre. It argues that the three productions―from 1972, 1988 and 2012―each use cross-cultural casting in ways that illuminate the phases of inclusion for British performers of colour. ...
