Barbara Hodgdon, admired colleague and remarkable interpreter of Shakespeare in performance both on stage and on screen, died on March 22, having retired in 2012 from a distinguished career at Drake University and the University of Michigan. Her scholarly publications include The Shakespeare Trade (1998) and Shakespeare, Performance and the
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Sightings of my bin-liner began on the first day of spring break. My cell phone buzzed with unusual frequency as incoming texts arrived from friends and colleagues, all sent from the security check-point in the Reno-Tahoe International Airport, and all accompanied by iPhone photos of the plastic bins that go
Read moreIn its allusions to past, present, and even futuristic theater, the Thomas Jolly Richard III seemed a perfect beginning to the year of Shakespeare commemoration in France, focused as it is on his afterlife. I’m sure that there will eventually be more authoritative accounts of this production, which was probably
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Shakespeare Quarterly has some exciting news to share. On January 1, 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP) will become the journal’s new publisher. Below is an excerpt from the official press release: “Oxford University Press is the perfect partner for Shakespeare Quarterly,” said Michael Witmore, Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library. “Their
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Both Ewan Fernie and Paul Kottman have recently published books that address the expansive topics of Shakespeare and freedom: Ewan Fernie, Shakespeare for Freedom: Why the Plays Matter (Cambridge University Press, 2017); Paul Kottman, Love as Human Freedom (Stanford University Press, 2017). In addition to each author reviewing the other’s
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