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Roland Greene
Greene is a scholar of early modern culture, especially the literatures of England, Latin
Greene is a scholar of early modern culture, especially the literatures of England, Latin Europe, and the transatlantic world, and of poetry and poetics from the sixteenth century to the present. He is the author or editor of five books and many articles. His current projects include books on the poetry of the hemispheric Americas and on the Baroque. Since 2001 he has taught at Stanford University, where he is the Mark Pigott KBE Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences.
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Philology's Queer Children: Imitation, Authorship, and Shakespeare's "Natural" Language
Essay
We should be contemplating and generating other philologies, future philologies, in Shakespeare studies.
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The Hamlet Effect
Blog Post
Shakespeare's famous play cautions against thinking ourselves at the center of a drama of vengeance.
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How Cervantes Made His Characters Seem Real
Essay
His novel contribution to fiction derives from a fascination with how characters perceive and misperceive situations.
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Contrary Matters: The Power of the Gloss and the History of an Obscenity
Book Chapter
This chapter explores Hamlet's infamous dirty joke in light of the Q1 manuscript.
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Shakespearean slips
Blog Post
Though Shakespeare may not have invented parapraxes, he certainly exploited their psychological depths long before Freud.
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Don Quixote as a Topographic Poet
Essay
In addition to his signal achievements as a knight errant, Don Quixote de la Mancha produced a small but noteworthy body of poetry.
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Spelling Shakespeare: Early Modern "Orthography" and the Secret Lives of Shakespeare's Compositors
Book Chapter
Masten considers what queer philology can uncover in the Shakespearean text from the period before lexical standardization.
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Humanities West: Shakespeare and Cervantes
Video
How did Cervantes and Shakespeare meet, if not in person?
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I'm not a Cervantes scholar, but I play one in the classroom
Essay
I should put my cards on the table and confess that I am not a cervantista, a specialist in Cervantes.
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The Other Problem with "Anonymous"
Essay
My Shakespeare class finally persuaded me to take a class trip to go see the new Roland Emmerich movie, Anonymous. I went forewarned.
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Maybe Exemplary? James Mabbe's Translation of the 'Exemplarie Novells' (1640)
Journal Article4.2 (2015)
On the paradoxical reception—imitations of plot but never of style—of Cervantes's novellas in England.
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Hamlet within Hamlet
Book Chapter
Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury, was no fan of Shakespeare. Surveying the development of English drama from the vantage of the early 1700s, he lamented Shakespeare’s “natural Rudeness, his unpolish’d Stile, his antiquated Phrase and Wit, his want of... more