Confession and judgment are two sides of the same action in the drama of ideas; sometimes the confessor and the…
’Swounds: Shakespeare and the spirit of trust
Shakespeare
I swear
This forum is on the oath: the promise, the pledge, the vow, equally the curse, the malediction, the blasphemy.
Shakespeare’s theatre of conversion
My claim in this essay is that William Shakespeare’s theatre grew out of the early modern crisis of conversion—the period…
American carpe diem
When Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller adapted Thomas Mann’s 1896 short story Enttäuschung (“Disillusionment”) into the lyrics we know from…