David Schalkwyk
Biographic Data
| ID | 1137413 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Schalkwyk |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Schalkwyk |
| SIGNATURE | SCHALKWYK D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Town |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 9 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Language
The power of Shakespeare's complex language - his linguistic playfulness, poetic diction and dramatic dialogue - inspires and challenges students, teachers, actors and theatre-goers across the globe. It has iconic status and enormous resonance, even as language change and the distance of time render it more opaque and difficult. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Language provides important contexts for understanding Shakespeare's experimen…
Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Language
Shakespeare in the Global South
Contemporary adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays have brought into sharp focus the legacies of slavery, racism and colonial dispossession that still haunt the global South. Looking sideways across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans to nontraditional centres of Shakespeare practice, Shakespeare in the Global South explores the solidarities generated by contemporary adaptations and their stories of displacement and survival. The book takes its lead from…
“Unpacking the Heart”
Hamlet is not usually considered a play about love, although some have traced a conception of desire in Hamlet’s relationship with his mother. This essay approaches the classic distinction between the public and the private in Hamlet by focusing on the discourses of love, viewed through Wittgenstein’s remarks on the relationship between interiority and the public face of meaning. The essay argues that although interiority is not “nothing,” as som…
Shakespeare’s Tragedy and Roman History
The inheritance of Roman history was pervasive in Shakespeare’s day, but complex and ambiguous. Shakespeare’s plays respond to this legacy in increasingly sophisticated ways, not only in those plays based directly on the history of Rome. The Roman plays, especially those drawn from Plutarch, show a distinctive and historically novel interest in the relation between individual action and constitutional change in periods of political crisis.
In Blood Stepped in
In their modern Hebrew stage versions, which developed in the twentieth century while Jewish nationhood was striving to materialize territorially and culturally, productions of Shakespeare’s tragedies were often measured by their relevance to the current political circumstances. Thus in Romeo and Juliet , whose core of romantic betrothal may still reflect the concerns and demands of the wider community, the lovers' failure to establish a new mode…
The Classical Inheritance
The question of Shakespeare’s relation to the Greek and Roman playwrights has, historically, possessed a kind of amplitude that his relation to other kinds of tradition has not. While recent scholarship challenges the old claim that Shakespeare had no direct access to Greek drama, Seneca’s status as his chief classical influence remains unchallenged. Moreover, Seneca’s plays self-consciously broadcast their embeddedness in tradition in a way that…
French Receptions of Shakespearean Tragedy
The philosopher Alain synthesized the French approach to Shakespeare when he announced: ‘If Hamlet fell down to Earth, naked, without its procession of admirers, the critics would mock it, not without the semblance of a reason.’ Contrasting the quest for the essence of a work of art as opposed to its mere existence, he emphasized an enduring dualism in the French reception of Shakespearean tragedy. Between Voltaire’s rejection and the Romantics’ …
Coriolanus
Shakespeare’s tragedy traces the tensions within a developing constitutional republic that is still reliant on the prowess of militaristic individuals for survival. Coriolanus is fully a tragedy because it traces the negotiation, contestation, and constitution of power through the character of a single hero whose abilities are both crucial to the survival of the republican state and deeply inimical to it. The chapter traces the ways in which the …
‘It is the East’
Shakespearean tragedies have played an important part in modern and contemporary East Asian engagements with Western cultures. Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Singaporean translations, rewritings, films, and theatre productions have three important shared characteristics, namely hybridization of genres, intra-regional and trans-historical allusions, and spirituality. These adaptations tend to present the plays in hybrid performative genres, someti…
Antony and Cleopatra
This chapter surveys a range of key topics in Antony and Cleopatra , including space, rhetoric, love, politics, ethnicity and gender. It considers the dichotomy between Egypt and Rome, the contrast between linguistic hyperbole and onstage action, and the variety of source materials available to Shakespeare. The central characters are introduced as both historical agents and fictional creations. The chapter finally suggests the importance of the s…
The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy
The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy is a collection of fifty-four essays by a range of scholars from all parts of the world, bringing together some of the best-known writers in the field with a strong selection of younger Shakespeareans. Together these essays offer readers a fresh and comprehensive understanding of Shakespeare tragedies as both works of literature and as performance texts written by a playwright who was himself an experi…
Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy
"The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy is a collection of 54 essays by a range of scholars from all parts of the world, bringing together some of the best-known writers in the field with a strong selection of younger Shakespeareans. Together these essays offer readers a fresh and comprehensive understanding of Shakespeare tragedies as both works of literature and as performance texts written by a playwright who was himself an experienced a…
The Cambridge Companion to Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela was one of the most revered figures of our time. He committed himself to a compelling political cause, suffered a long prison sentence, and led his violent and divided country to a peaceful democratic transition. His legacy, however, is not uncontested: his decision to embark on an armed struggle in the 1960s, his solitary talks with apartheid officials in the 1980s, and the economic policies adopted during his presidency still spa…
Shakespeare's Speech
Posing the unusual question of what Shakespeare's speech might be in relation to the texts that go under the name “William Shakespeare,” this essay puts to the question a number of assumptions in literary theory about character, subjectivity, genre, the place of the author in a literary text, and language as a system and its relation to performative speech acts. Considering the prevalence of oaths in Shakespeare's texts, the first part argues tha…
Speech and Performance in Shakespeare's Sonnets and Plays
Shakespeare and the Power of Performance
Robert Weimann and Douglas Bruster. Shakespeare and the Power of Performance: Stage and Page in the Elizabethan Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. x + 266 pp. index. $99. ISBN: 978–0–521–89532–3. - Volume 62 Issue 2
Shakespeare, Moral Experience and Historical Criticism
Double Vision: Moral Philosophy and Shakespearean Drama. By Tzachi Zamir (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007), xv + 234 pp. $35.00/£22.95 cloth. There has been a sudden interest in the
Shakespeare, Love and Service
Peter Laslett's comment, in The World We Have Lost, that in the early modern period 'every relationship could be seen as a love-relationship' presents the governing idea of this book. In an analysis that includes Shakespeare's sonnets and a wide range of his plays from The Comedy of Errors to The Winter's Tale, David Schalkwyk looks at the ways in which the personal, affective relations of love are informed by the social, structural interactions …
Hamlet's Dreams
A Report to the Academy
What’s in a name?”
From the globe to globalisation
Both Disneyland and the New Globe Theatre in London, which purports to be a faithful copy of Shakespeare's Globe, are informed by specific concepts of historical authenticity, reconstruction and entertainment. Using the chance conjunction of the Globe Theatre and Disneyland Paris during the author's holiday in Europe, this article offers a comparative study, in terms of both theory and personal experience, of the nature of these two cultural inst…
Portrait and proxy
(1999). Portrait and proxy: representing Plaatje and Plaatje represented. Scrutiny2: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 14-29
Why the Social Bond Cannot be a Passing Fashion
There can be no doubt that Jean-Francois Lyotard’s The Postmodern Condition has more than lived up to its title insofar as it has been taken up as the signal explication, if not example, of the condition that the ‘globalised’ world finds itself in today.1 This paper attempts to demonstrate the incoherence of at least one of its arguments, namely that the postmodern marks the relegation of the social bond not only to the past but also to what is p…
A Report to the Academy
Portrait and proxy
(1999). Portrait and proxy: representing Plaatje and Plaatje represented. Scrutiny2: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 14-29
The flight from politics
the basic and constant discursive organization of the journal, the matrix of its literary and cultural criticism and of its educational policies, of its radical and conservative manifestations alike, was one defined by a dialectic of 'culture' and 'civilization' whose main and logically necessary effect was a depreciation, a repression and, at the limit, a categorical dissolution of politics as such.'
Shakespeare in the Global South
Contemporary adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays have brought into sharp focus the legacies of slavery, racism and colonial dispossession that still haunt the global South. Looking sideways across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans to nontraditional centres of Shakespeare practice, Shakespeare in the Global South explores the solidarities generated by contemporary adaptations and their stories of displacement and survival. The book takes its lead from…
The flight from politics
the basic and constant discursive organization of the journal, the matrix of its literary and cultural criticism and of its educational policies, of its radical and conservative manifestations alike, was one defined by a dialectic of 'culture' and 'civilization' whose main and logically necessary effect was a depreciation, a repression and, at the limit, a categorical dissolution of politics as such.'
The authority of experience or the tyranny of discourse
The meaning of the wor(l)d
This article is a critical review of the major argument in favour of realism and the concomitant critique of poststructuralism in Raymond Tallis's recent book, Not Saussure: A Critique of Post‐Saussurean Literary Theory. While it is generally sympathetic to Tallis's aim to “refute once and for all the belief that there are logico‐linguistic grounds for denying the possibility of a valid realistic fiction”, it argues both that Tallis overlooks the…
Knowledge, ethics and the limits of language
This article investigates the concepts of the unsayable, the unrepresentable, and the unpresentable in the early and the later Wittgenstein and in the work of Lyotard. It compares the ethics of Wittgenstein's injunction in the Tractatus, that we must keep silent about that whereof we cannot speak, with Lyotard's attempt to form an ethics around the unrepresentable through the “differend”. Lyotard's reduction of the grammatical to the theoretical …
Why the Social Bond Cannot be a Passing Fashion
There can be no doubt that Jean-Francois Lyotard’s The Postmodern Condition has more than lived up to its title insofar as it has been taken up as the signal explication, if not example, of the condition that the ‘globalised’ world finds itself in today.1 This paper attempts to demonstrate the incoherence of at least one of its arguments, namely that the postmodern marks the relegation of the social bond not only to the past but also to what is p…
What does Derrida mean by 'the text
From the globe to globalisation
Both Disneyland and the New Globe Theatre in London, which purports to be a faithful copy of Shakespeare's Globe, are informed by specific concepts of historical authenticity, reconstruction and entertainment. Using the chance conjunction of the Globe Theatre and Disneyland Paris during the author's holiday in Europe, this article offers a comparative study, in terms of both theory and personal experience, of the nature of these two cultural inst…
Portrait and proxy
(1999). Portrait and proxy: representing Plaatje and Plaatje represented. Scrutiny2: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 14-29
What’s in a name?”
A Report to the Academy
Hamlet's Dreams
Shakespeare, Love and Service
Peter Laslett's comment, in The World We Have Lost, that in the early modern period 'every relationship could be seen as a love-relationship' presents the governing idea of this book. In an analysis that includes Shakespeare's sonnets and a wide range of his plays from The Comedy of Errors to The Winter's Tale, David Schalkwyk looks at the ways in which the personal, affective relations of love are informed by the social, structural interactions …
Speech and Performance in Shakespeare's Sonnets and Plays
Shakespeare and the Power of Performance
Robert Weimann and Douglas Bruster. Shakespeare and the Power of Performance: Stage and Page in the Elizabethan Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. x + 266 pp. index. $99. ISBN: 978–0–521–89532–3. - Volume 62 Issue 2
Shakespeare, Moral Experience and Historical Criticism
Double Vision: Moral Philosophy and Shakespearean Drama. By Tzachi Zamir (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007), xv + 234 pp. $35.00/£22.95 cloth. There has been a sudden interest in the
Shakespeare's Speech
Posing the unusual question of what Shakespeare's speech might be in relation to the texts that go under the name “William Shakespeare,” this essay puts to the question a number of assumptions in literary theory about character, subjectivity, genre, the place of the author in a literary text, and language as a system and its relation to performative speech acts. Considering the prevalence of oaths in Shakespeare's texts, the first part argues tha…
The Cambridge Companion to Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela was one of the most revered figures of our time. He committed himself to a compelling political cause, suffered a long prison sentence, and led his violent and divided country to a peaceful democratic transition. His legacy, however, is not uncontested: his decision to embark on an armed struggle in the 1960s, his solitary talks with apartheid officials in the 1980s, and the economic policies adopted during his presidency still spa…
Shakespeare’s Tragedy and Roman History
The inheritance of Roman history was pervasive in Shakespeare’s day, but complex and ambiguous. Shakespeare’s plays respond to this legacy in increasingly sophisticated ways, not only in those plays based directly on the history of Rome. The Roman plays, especially those drawn from Plutarch, show a distinctive and historically novel interest in the relation between individual action and constitutional change in periods of political crisis.
In Blood Stepped in
In their modern Hebrew stage versions, which developed in the twentieth century while Jewish nationhood was striving to materialize territorially and culturally, productions of Shakespeare’s tragedies were often measured by their relevance to the current political circumstances. Thus in Romeo and Juliet , whose core of romantic betrothal may still reflect the concerns and demands of the wider community, the lovers' failure to establish a new mode…
The Classical Inheritance
The question of Shakespeare’s relation to the Greek and Roman playwrights has, historically, possessed a kind of amplitude that his relation to other kinds of tradition has not. While recent scholarship challenges the old claim that Shakespeare had no direct access to Greek drama, Seneca’s status as his chief classical influence remains unchallenged. Moreover, Seneca’s plays self-consciously broadcast their embeddedness in tradition in a way that…
French Receptions of Shakespearean Tragedy
The philosopher Alain synthesized the French approach to Shakespeare when he announced: ‘If Hamlet fell down to Earth, naked, without its procession of admirers, the critics would mock it, not without the semblance of a reason.’ Contrasting the quest for the essence of a work of art as opposed to its mere existence, he emphasized an enduring dualism in the French reception of Shakespearean tragedy. Between Voltaire’s rejection and the Romantics’ …
Coriolanus
Shakespeare’s tragedy traces the tensions within a developing constitutional republic that is still reliant on the prowess of militaristic individuals for survival. Coriolanus is fully a tragedy because it traces the negotiation, contestation, and constitution of power through the character of a single hero whose abilities are both crucial to the survival of the republican state and deeply inimical to it. The chapter traces the ways in which the …
‘It is the East’
Shakespearean tragedies have played an important part in modern and contemporary East Asian engagements with Western cultures. Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Singaporean translations, rewritings, films, and theatre productions have three important shared characteristics, namely hybridization of genres, intra-regional and trans-historical allusions, and spirituality. These adaptations tend to present the plays in hybrid performative genres, someti…
Antony and Cleopatra
This chapter surveys a range of key topics in Antony and Cleopatra , including space, rhetoric, love, politics, ethnicity and gender. It considers the dichotomy between Egypt and Rome, the contrast between linguistic hyperbole and onstage action, and the variety of source materials available to Shakespeare. The central characters are introduced as both historical agents and fictional creations. The chapter finally suggests the importance of the s…
The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy
The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy is a collection of fifty-four essays by a range of scholars from all parts of the world, bringing together some of the best-known writers in the field with a strong selection of younger Shakespeareans. Together these essays offer readers a fresh and comprehensive understanding of Shakespeare tragedies as both works of literature and as performance texts written by a playwright who was himself an experi…
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