Through the lens of J. Hillis Miller's notion of catachresis, this paper examines problematic scenes in Shakespeare's 1 Henry IV and Henry V, particularly concerning the depiction of the national or linguistic Other. ...
This essay examines Shakespeare’s history plays as an exploration of the place of theatricality in politics. Over the course of two tetralogies, Shakespeare enters into the Early Modern theatrical discourse by presenting ...
My thesis examines Othello as a text fundamentally concerned with the nature of narrative and story-telling. I argue that while Othello initially sees narrative as a linear system, he is forced to see it as endlessly ...