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This article examines the way in which Julius Caesar and other related plays by Shakespeare helped to closely shape both the themes and ideological structure in Victor Hugo's Cromwell. Traditional approaches to the Shakespeare-Hugo conjunction have limited their analysis to the two critical texts by Hugo, the Preface to Cromwell and his book William Shakespeare. These approaches tend to be vague and ingenuous, as they commonly take at face value whatever Hugo had to say about his plays, without verifying whether Shakespeare is actually or not a determinant influence in his dramatic oeuvre. By exploring textual parallelisms between Shakespeare's plays and Cromwell, this article aims to lay down a firmer textual basis for this important comparative site. The analysis is moreover conducted within a speculative frame that accords to the category of revolution a decisive role in Hugo's poetics. A logic of resurrectionary iteration and uncanny causality is held to govern the process of literary appropriation by means of which a prominent exponent of Romantic freedom reactivates Shakespearean transgression in order to deploy an English historical drama of usurpation, revolution and tyrannicide. Recent work on Julius Caesar by Richard Wilson and other critics lends support to my claims. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An English text of Carl Schmitt'sHamlet or Hecubamakes it vital to question the turn from French theory to Germany philosophy in Shakespeare studies, given a Left flirtation with Schmitt's Political Theology begun by Walter Benjamin. The Marxist critic's fascination with fascism was decried by Terry Eagleton as a theoretical error. So it is ironic that Eagleton'sWilliam Shakespearewas driven by the same Schmittian idea that “sovereign is he who decides the exception” in language or law. Eagleton backtracked on its cult of violence after 9/11. But 25 years on, his introduction to the plays shows the danger of using Shakespeare to decide necessary violence, not least in its own exceptional force of argument. This article thus considers Eagleton's book to be an early example of the coincidence of opposites that currently attracts Shakespeareans to dubious existentialist notions of decision and risk. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Lists biographical works on William Shakespeare. "William Shakespeare--Not Guilty," by Robert Andrews; "Francis Bacon--The Spear Shaker," by Helene H. Armstrong; "A Glimpse of Shakespeare's World," by Meir Bleich; "The Landscape of William Shakespeare," by David J. Michael.

Lists articles and books on William Shakespeare's theatrical works. "William Shakespeare," by John F. Andrews; :Counterweights in Elizabethan Stage Machinery," by H. John Astington; "A Glipmse of Shakespeare's World, " by Meir Bleich; "Elizabethan Stage Conventions and Modern Interpreters," by Alan C. Dessen.

Lists articles and books on the works of William Shakespeare. "The Best of DQR," edited by F.G.A.M and others; "William Shakespeare: Didaktisches Handbuch," edited by Rudiger Ahrens; "Shakespeare Readings, 1985," edited by A. Anikst; "Philosophy and Literature," by John Farnsworth; "Renaissance Drama," edited by Leonard Barkan.

Presents a bibliography of biographical books of William Shakespeare. "Letters of King James VI & I," edited by G.P.V. Akrigg; "Shakespeare's Professional Career," by David Bevington; "Economic Life in Shakespeare's England," by D.C. Coleman; "Mysterious Shakespeare," by Gordon C. Cyr.

Presents a bibliography of analyzed collections of books, articles, reviews of books, dissertations and dissertation abstracts, theatrical productions and reprints of works related to William Shakespeare. "The Voyage In: Fictions in Female Development," edited by Elizabeth Abe et al; "Teaching Shakespeare:Essays on Approaches to Shakespeare in Schools and Colleges," edited by Rudiger Ahrens; "William Shakespeare: His World, His Work, His Influence," edited by John F. Andrews.

Presents several books about William Shakespeare's drama. 'Shakespeare on Fairies and Magic'; 'William Shakespeare sur la falaise de Douvres: Poémes,' translated by Jacques Darras; 'Shakespeare on Love,' edited by Helen Exley; 'William Shakespeare,' edited by David Scott and Marina Kastan.

Discusses two series non-fiction books contained in the collection "Voices in Poetry." “William Shakespeare,” by Jennifer Fandel; “Maya Angelou,” by Patricia Kirkpatrick.

Presents the books 'Venus en Adonis,' translated by Jan Jonk and 'William Shakespeare: Venus and Adonis,' translated by Vladislav Ladogin.

Presents several books about the play 'Romeo and Juliet.' 'Romeo and Juliet,' edited by John Russell Brown; 'Romeo and Juliet,' edited by Peter Holland; 'Romeo and Juliet, 1597,' edited by Jill L. Levenson and Barry Gaines; 'William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet.'

Presents several books about the play 'The Tempest.' 'Shakespeare's Comedy of the Tempest,' illustrated by Edmund Dulac; 'The Tempest,' edited by Christine Dymkowski; 'William Shakespeare: The Tempest: A Case Study in Critical Controversy,' edited by Gerald Graft and James Phelan; 'Shakespeare's the Tempest,' edited by Sidney Lamb.

The article presents a list of books including "Schoolroom Games and Exercises," by Elizabeth G. Bainbridge, "The Rise and Early Constitution of Universities," by S. S. Laurie and "William Shakespeare," by Victor Hugo, translated by Melville B. Anderson.