People Being Stupid About Shakespeare IV

By On 12/04/2012 · 5 Comments

Why hello, inane Shakespeareana! Haven’t seen you in a while. Oh, it’s the Olympics coming up? That explains a lot.

Behold this idiocy:

It’s a bit unclear what exactly the point of the video — or the exhibition it’s advertising — might be, but it seems to have something to do with Shakespeare’s [...]

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The Strange Case of Thomas Dekker

By On 30/03/2012 · 5 Comments

[This is a very lightly edited version of a paper I gave last weekend at the Renaissance Society of America conference in Washington, DC. Many thanks to Adam Hooks and András Kiséry for organizing the panel and for their excellent papers!]

Thomas Dekker should be central to discussions of early modern theatre, but he isn’t. [...]

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Drummond on Higher Education (An Ontario Post)

By On 21/02/2012 · Leave a Comment

Since it seems that all policy decisions now have to be justified on economic grounds, I suppose it made sense for the Ontario government to turn to a former banker and current economist for advice on the future direction of the province. The 600-plus-page document Don Drummond produced in response has been extensively covered in [...]

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Flickers from the Past

By On 07/02/2012 · 3 Comments

Once upon a time — more than a decade ago now — I thought I’d be a film maker. As it turned out, I preferred my life as an academic, but today I discovered that two of my short films have been up on Vimeo for a while, thanks to my old D.O.P.’s efforts. Here’s [...]

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