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London, 1592-93. Plague ravaged the city. Unemployment spiked. Angry apprentices took to the streets. To stem the spread of disease and unrest, the authorities shut down the theaters for over a year. Popular resentment soon turned to an all-too-familiar scapegoat: immigrants. The primary targets were Dutch and French refugees from the European wars of religion. […]
Read MoreWhat is required for people to see race or racial difference? When do people notice either? Beyond that, what does it take for people to become aware of pervasive global anti-Blackness? And what is required for them to acknowledge racism and its centuries-old effects? Is it a little Black girl’s beautiful dark skin and afro […]
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When Shakespeare Survey began publishing its annual yearbook of criticism, interpretation, and performance in 1948, computer technology was in flux. Transistors were the new invention (1947). The first commercial digital computers, the Z4, were produced in 1950; Grace Hopper, the First Lady of Software, wrote the first computer language in 1953; and the integrated circuit […]
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In May 2000, the Global Change Newsletter featured a brief note of just over a page which in retrospect has emerged as one of the most important texts of the new millennium. In the short article, the two authors, Paul J. Crutzen and Eugene Stoermer, argue that humanity’s impact on the planet has grown so […]
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When Russian forces invaded Ukraine in March 2022, Shakespeare’s Hamlet was repeatedly used by theatre makers, scholars, and political leaders to express the existential threat faced by Ukrainians and to provoke debate about Western involvement in the crisis. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed, in an address to the British parliament on 8 March, that ‘the question for us […]
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Since the first uses of the term in the 1970s, the graphic novel has been a concept in constant debate and evolution, capturing the new developments and mutations of comics across the last decades, alongside the concerns and enthusiasms such changes generate. At times blindly embraced, at other times vehemently rejected, the term has now […]
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Religious liberty has long been considered as a foundational human right in modern liberal democracies. Article 18 of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights specifies that everybody has the ‘freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance’.[1] But […]
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Before Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022, many Ukrainians didn’t believe it would happen. When it did, Ukraine immediately declared a general mobilization-and a mass of Ukrainians who had been following peaceful occupations quickly got ready to fight. It is sometimes assumed that the ‘civilizing process’ leaves the citizens of modern states unprepared for […]
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