Stuart Elden, "Shakespearean Territories" (U Chicago Press, 2018)

The University of Chicago Press Podcast · Dec 18, 2020 · 41m

What can Shakespeare tell us about territory, and what can territory tell us about Shakespeare?

In Shakespearean Territories (University of Chicago Press, 2018), Stuart Elden, Professor of Political Theory and Geography at the University of Warwick and author of the Progressive Geographies blog, explores both of these questions, drawing on his earlier work theorising territory, as well as an extensive discussion of numerous works of Shakespeare. The book considers a range of subjects associated with the concept of territory, from the geo-politics of King Lear, the idea of sovereignty in King…