Playing Shakespeare's Villains

Louis Fantasia is the director of the Los Angeles Shakespeare Institute, a joint project of the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles and the UCLA Clark Memorial Library. Formerly President of Deep Springs College, he was awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his contributions to German culture and theatre.

Louis Fantasia: Introduction: Playing Shakespeare’s Villains: Bloody, bawdy, remorseless, treacherous, lecherous! – Janna Segal: "Something wicked this way comes": (Re)Locating the Supernatural World of Macbeth – Timothy Harris: "A few drams of eale": An Overview of Evil in Shakespeare’s Plays – Armin Shimerman: "He that plays the King shall be welcome" – Brian Lohmann: Damned, Smiling Villains: The Pleasure of Not Caring – Louis Scheeder: Iachimo: "By villainy I got this ring" – Edit Villareal: Behind Closed Doors: Sex, Lies and Servants – Charmaine Cordero: "Tis a vile thing to die": Teaching Villainy in the Public School Classroom – Louis Fantasia: "Very fine people …" – Clifford Librach: On the Nature of Evil – Contributors.