This article shows how temporal disorder diffuses into the wildernesses within early modern English drama. Those areas beyond walls of cities and castles in—among other plays—The Two Gentlemen Verona, Titus Andronicus, Romeo Juliet, Macbeth thus flit free from rules that construct a play’s quotidian world, conspicuous partitions enclose an otherworld in medieval iconography no longer seem clear...

Clastres ‘de-substantializes’ the state, which is not ‘the Elysium, the White House, the Kremlin,’ but ‘an actualization of a relation of power.’ There is no reason, therefore, to believe that, in a Durkheimian mood, he has reified society. Even though he makes no use of the concept, I believe there is already a concept of ‘sociality’ at work in Clastres: hence, the idea of sociality against th...

This article examines two recent queer adaptations of Romeo and Juliet in Seoul, attending to their opposite receptions relation the gap between theory gay reality. It focuses on LAS's , hailed as ‘female theatre’ despite being conservative gay, while discussing briefly comparison Yohangza's decried ‘anti-queer’ for all its queerness. Although dream a happy married life appears similar much-cri...

In Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare implies in a fascinating way that before the main action of the play there was what I shall call a 'pre-history', namely a story of an earlier involvement between Benedick and Beatrice. It is this `prehistory' which I wish to examine and clarify here, as I think that it is usually overlooked, or at least not adequately understood. The implied scenario logi...

The availability of quantitative text analysis methods has provided new ways analyzing literature in a manner that was not available the pre-information era. Here we apply comprehensive machine learning to work William Shakespeare. shows clear changes style writing over time, with most significant sentence length, frequency adjectives and adverbs, sentiments expressed text. Applying make stylom...