Kingston Shakespeare Podcasts

Richard Wilson introduces the symposium and the first speaker David Hawkes.

These are the recordings from the Shakespeare and Marx symposium organised by Kingston Shakespeare and held at Garrick's Temple to Shakespeare (Hampton, UK) on June 24, 2017. Recorded and edited by Anna Rajala and Timo Uotinen.

David Hawkes is Professor of English at Arizona State University. His publications span a huge variety of fields, from Milton and Shakespeare to Diego Maradona, sodomy, Darwinism, zombies, torture, Chomsky, magic, McCarthyism, Islam and Satan. The theme uniting all of his work is the impact of capital on the psyche, and especially the pernicious influence of usury. He reviews regularly for the Times Literary Supplement and his work has appeared in The Nation and In These Times as well as in academic venues like the Journal of the History of Ideas, English Literary History and Studies in English Literature.

David Hawkes is the author of Idols of the Marketplace: Idolatry and Commodity Fetishism in English Literature, 1580-1680 (Palgrave, 2001), Ideology (Routledge, 1996, 2nd ed. 2003), The Faust Myth: Religion and the Rise of Representation (Palgrave, 2007), John Milton: A Hero of Our Time (Counterpoint, 2009) and The Culture of Usury in Renaissance England (Palgrave, 2010) and he has edited Milton’s Paradise Lost and Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress. More recently, he has written Shakespeare and Economic Theory (Bloombury, 2015) and collaborated with Alan Rubin and the artist LG Williams on The Age Of The Image: LG Williams SoCal Mid-Rise Pictures 2015-16 (published in 2016). He is currently working on a book entitled The Death of the Soul. For more information, see davidhawkes.net.

These are the recordings from the Shakespeare and Marx symposium organised by Kingston Shakespeare and held at Garrick's Temple to Shakespeare (Hampton, UK) on June 24, 2017.

Recorded and edited by Anna Rajala and Timo Uotinen.

Questions to David Hawkes.

These are the recordings from the Shakespeare and Marx symposium organised by Kingston Shakespeare and held at Garrick's Temple to Shakespeare (Hampton, UK) on June 24, 2017.

Recorded and edited by Anna Rajala and Timo Uotinen.

Robert O’Dowd opens the Marlowe and Shakespeare -conference held at the Rose Theatre, Kingston. He is followed by Richard Wilson introducing Frank Whately (Kingston) who is giving the opening plenary with a lecture entitled Edward Alleyn and the Rose.

More on the talk and speaker: https://kingstonshakespeareseminar.wordpress.com/2018/01/24/frank-whately-edward-alleyn-and-the-rose-conference-introduction/

Recorded on November 17, 2017 at the Rose Theatre, Kingston. Audio recording and editing by Timo Uotinen.

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.

More info on the talk and speaker:https://kingstonshakespeareseminar.wordpress.com/2018/01/24/jean-howard-playing-history-at-the-rose/

Recorded on November 17, 2017 at the Rose Theatre, Kingston. Audio recording by Anna Ilona Rajala and editing by Timo Uotinen.

In her illumination of Shakespeare through Hegel, Jennifer Ann Bates reads the logic of measure from Hegel alongside Measure for Measure. Bates argues that each text is an initiation into the execution of the logic of measure with a focus on the hangman’s mystery as discussed by Abhorson and Pompey.

Jennifer Ann Bates is Professor of Philosophy at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh. She specializes in 19th century German philosophy with an emphasis on Hegel. Professor Bates established the Philosophy Duquesne-Heidelberg Exchange in 2013 and chaired it until 2016. She has served as a Heidelberg University Alumni Research Ambassador since 2013.

Professor Bates is the author of Hegel’s Theory of Imagination (SUNY 2004), Hegel and Shakespeare on Moral Imagination (SUNY 2010), and co-editor (with Richard Wilson) of Shakespeare and Continental Philosophy (Edinburgh University Press, 2014). She has published numerous book chapters, as well as articles in the Wallace Stevens Journal, the Journal for Environmental Ethics, Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts, Memoria di Shakespeare, Philosophy Compass, and Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities. She is currently writing a chapter on Kant and Shakespeare for The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Philosophy, and a chapter on Kant, Hegel, Solger and Imagination for Cambridge University Press.

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Video soon available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNxT9bfns9lVmjQGjq_Y0Ww

This talk is part of the Shakespeare and Hegel symposium, held at Garrick's Temple to Shakespeare (Hampton, London) on April 1, 2017. The session is chaired by Richard Wilson. Audio recorded and edited by Anna Ilona Rajala.

This talk is part of the Shakespeare and the Enlightenment symposium, held at Garrick's Temple to Shakespeare(Hampton, London) in September 2016. The session is chaired by Richard Wilson.

Paul A. Kottman is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the New School for Social Research, and Eugene Lang College, the New School for Liberal Arts. He is a member of the Committee on Liberal Studies, and is affiliated with the Philosophy Department. He holds the Abilitazione, Professore Ordinario in Filosofia, Estetica (Professor of Philosophy, Aesthetics) in Italy. He has held Visiting Professorships at the University of Tokyo; the Università degli studi di Verona; Instituto per gli studi filosofici, Naples; and the International Chair in Political Languages, Dipartimento di Politiche Pubbliche e Scelte Colletive (POLIS), Università del Piemonte Orientale. He has been awarded residential fellowships at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (Institute for Research in the Humanities) and Internationales Kolleg Morphomata, Universität zu Köln.

Paul Kottman is the author of Tragic Conditions in Shakespeare (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), A Politics of the Scene (Stanford University Press, 2008) and the editor of Philosophers on Shakespeare (Stanford University Press, 2009), and The Insistence of Art: Aesthetic Philosophy and Early Modernity (Fordham UP, forthcoming). His next book is tentatively entitled Love as Human Freedom. He is also the editor of a new book series at Stanford University Press, called Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities.

The symposium was held on September 3, 2016. Audio recorded and edited by Anna Ilona Rajala.

On Shakespeare at the Temple:https://kingstonshakespeareseminar.wordpress.com/about-2/kingston-shakespeare-seminar-at-garricks-temple/

Professor Richard Wilson introduces the symposium on Shakespeare and the Enlightenment at Garrick's Temple to Shakespeare in Hampton, London.

The symposium was held on September 3, 2016. Recorded and edited by Anna Ilona Rajala.

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Sir Stanley Wells delivers the 2017 Rose Theatre Shakespeare Birthday Lecture. The lecture is entitled ‘The Genius of Shakespeare’. The session is chaired by Richard Wilson.

The Shakespearean actor Andrew Jarvis receives the Lifetime Achievement Award from the British Shakespeare Association on behalf of the great director John Barton.

Sir Stanley Wells is Britain’s preeminent Shakespeare scholar and one of the world’s leading experts on the Elizabethan theatre. His many bestselling books on the Bard include Shakespeare, Sex and Love, Shakespeare & Co. and Shakespeare For All Time. He is the General Editor of both the Oxford and the Penguin Shakespeare editions, and President of Stratford’s Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. Sir Stanley is also one of the best-loved lecturers on TV and radio and at literary festivals, and this recording of his 2017 Rose Theatre Birthday Lecture is a spell-binding display of all his talents as a Shakespeare interpreter, raconteur and performer.

Recorded on April 27, 2017 at the Rose Theatre, Kingston-upon-Thames. Recorded and edited by Anna Ilona Rajala.

Claudia Wedepohl is the Archivist of the Warburg Institute. She has studied Art History and Italian Literature in Göttingen and Hamburg, concluding her studies with a doctoral thesis on the Cappella del Perdono and Tempietto delle Muse in the Ducal Palace of Urbino (published as a book in 2009). She joined the staff of the Warburg Institute in 2000. Since 2006 she is responsible for the Archive. Her academic work focusses on fifteenth-century Italian art and architecture, and art historiography around 1900. She has published widely on the genesis of Aby Warburg’s ideas and key terms, with a special interest in his concept of myth and mythology.

The conference Frances Yates: The Art of Memory was held on April 30, 2016 at the Rose Theatre, Kingston. Recorded by Anna Rajala and Timo Uotinen.

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