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Stigma as Drama: From Shakespeare to Sociology

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Stigma and Satire in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida: Thersites's Deformity and Ajax's Monstrosity 

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Shakespeare Across the Disciplines

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A New Definition of the HumanitiesA New Definition of the Humanities
 

Reclaiming Richard III’s Disability
Reclaiming Richard III's Disability

 
Cripping Richard III
Cripping Richard III

 
Why Richard III
Why Richard III?

 
In Defense of Polonius
In Defense of Polonius

 

Sigma Alpha Elsinore: The Culture of Drunkenness in Shakespeare’s Hamlet
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What ‘The Northman’ is Really About

 

Criminology and Literature

 

Public Shakespeare

 

Shakespeare for Cops
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Public Shakespeare on Shakespeare for All

 

What’s Love Got to Do with Hamlet?

 

Hamlet is a Suicide Text—It’s Time to Teach it Like One
 
Is Donald Trump a Tyrant
Is Donald Trump a Tyrant? Yes and no — Aristotle and Euripides would disagree
 

10 Scenes from Shakespeare that Fit Donald Trump’s Presidency — Streaming Now
 
Social Distancing with Shakespeare
Social Distancing with Shakespeare

 

Which of Shakespeare’s Tragic Heroes is Donald Trump?
 

The Fortunes of Fate in Hamlet: Divine Providence and Social Determinism
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Why Shakespeare? Irony and Liberalism in Canonization
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The Hamlet Syndrome (with Henry F. Fradella)
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Public Shakespeare in Public Seminar
Public Shakespeare in Public Seminar

 

Trump is Satan: Paradise Lost in Washington, DC
 

Tragic Foundationalism
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"Redeeming time": The Dramatization of Desistance in 1 Henry IV
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The Meaning of Death in Shakespeare’s Hamlet
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Historicizing Presentism: Toward the Creation of a Journal of the Public Humanities
 

How Game of Thrones Will End: Spoilers from the Fifteenth Century
 

Tragic Excess in Hamlet
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Macbeth and Criminology
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Horatio as Author: Storytelling and Stoic Tragedy in Shakespeare’s Hamlet
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The Figure of Stigma in Shakespeare’s Drama
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Something is Rotten in the United States of America: Mass Shootings as Tragedy
 

Shakestats: Writing About Shakespeare Between the Humanities and the Social Sciences
Savage and Deformed
"Savage and deformed": Stigma as Drama in The Tempest
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“As a stranger give it welcome": Shakespeare’s Advice for First-Year College Students
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You must needs be strangers
“You must needs be strangers": Stigma and Sympathetic Imagination in Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More | PDF |

“When evil deeds have their permissive pass": Broken Windows in William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure | PDF |
To be or not to be
“To be, or not to be": Shakespeare Against Philosophy
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The Trouble with Disability in Shakespeare Studies
 

What Shakespeare Says About Sending Our Children Off to College
 

Writing in College: An Example and an Explanation
 

Violent Crime as Revenge Tragedy; Or, How Christopher Dorner Led Criminologists at CSU Long Beach to Shakespeare

The Word Criminology: A Philology and a Definition
 

Why We Write in College
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“It started like a guilty thing"; The Beginning of Hamlet and the Beginning of Modern Politics
 

Why I Write on My Mobile Phone
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Shakespeare and Criminology
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Hath not a jew a nose
Hath Not a Jew a Nose? Or, the Danger of Deformity in Comedy
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Interpretive Community
Interpretive Community
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