Shakespeare and the Future of Theory

François-Xavier Gleyzon teaches at the University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA. He is the author of Shakespeare’s Spiral (2010), and David Lynch in Theory (2011) along with a number of peer-reviewed articles on English Renaissance Literature and Visual Arts. His recent publications include two edited volumes on Shakespeare and Theory I & II (2013) and Reading Milton Through Islam (2015). Johann Gregory is a Postdoctoral Lecturing Fellow at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. He is the author of several articles on Shakespeare in relation to theatre and theory, and has also published work on John Taylor, the Water-Poet (1578-1653).

1. Thinking through Shakespeare: An Introduction to Shakespeare and Theory 2. Shakespeare by Design: A Flight of Concepts 3. Of Cause 4. "After the Takeover": Shakespeare, Lacan, Žižek and the Interpassive Subject 5. Wordplay in Shakespeare’s Hamlet and the Accusation of Derrida’s "Logical Phallusies" 6. Storm at Sea: The Tempest, Cultural Materialism and the Early Modern Political Aesthetic 7. Listening to the Body …: Transitioning to Shakespeare and Theory 8. Performing Disability and Theorizing Deformity 9. Ship of Fools: Foucault and the Shakespeareans 10. "Untimely Ripp’d": On Natality, Sovereignty and Unbearable Life 11. Syllogisms and Tears in Timon of Athens 12. Opening the Sacred Body or the Profaned Host in The Merchant of Venice