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Publications

It was Michael’s strong desire to make his scholarship available to as wide a global audience as possible. This was not from some egotistical desire on his part, but borne out of his love of his subject, and his frustration with conventional publishing taking so long to bear fruit.  All I ask of you, who search his works, displayed on this site, is that you appreciate the depth of his knowledge, his erudition, his generosity in making this available;  and with that said, that he is always referenced if you want to quote from him. To do otherwise is intellectual theft. Please honour his memory and his legacy with total honesty and transparency.

MY BOOKS

Autobiography for BA Shakespeare lecture 2010 

Michael Hattaway was educated in New Zealand and Cambridge.

Defining the Past

​In 1599, the lawyer and historian Dr John Hayward quoted Cicero’s definition of history, a formula that recurs in countless texts of the period

Empire and State

Empire and State:  Marlowe and Peele

Going Out on a Jig and a Prayer.

AYLI reflections on CUP edition 3

Forms Ancient and Modern

​Labels we bestow on periods or literary texts all too often define or restrict the questions we ask of them.

Godliness

Sectarianism and ‘Atheism’

Kingdom and Empire

It appears to me that the word empire conveys an idea of a vast territory, composed of various people[s]

Measure For Measure: Law and Order

No one now wants to regard the group of plays to which Measure for Measure belongs as essentially awkward and ungainly, disturbing because the works refuse to adorn themselves in the familiar garbs of tragedy and comedy.

Nation State

This study has Shakespeare at its centre, but places his plays in the context of other writings by major English dramatists of the Elizabethan and Stuart period.

Shakespeare’s Political Plays

Shakespeare’s Political Plays: Sports of Honour and Dignity

State and Nation

We turn now to the mutual definitions of ‘state’ and ‘nation’.   

State and Nation Work in Progress

We turn now to the mutual definitions of ‘state’ and ‘nation’.   Work in Progress

The Advent of Printing

About 1476 William Caxton started to publish from his Westminster printing house the first books produced in England using moveable type.

MY PAPERS

Ceremony

The word seems to have entered the English language in the 1380s from French, ultimately from Latin caerimonia, meaning sacredness, an exhibition of reverence, or a religious rite. 

Comedies on Film

Compared with screen versions of the tragedies and histories, there have been few distinguished films based on the comedies.

Editing As You Like It

The Occasion(s) of As You Like It and Editing the Play

Henry VI Parts 1, 2 and 3

For centuries critical energy was diverted from these plays into investigations of their dates, theatrical provenance, and even their titles and authorship.

IASI Nation and State

Empire, State, and Nation:  Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Peele.

Law and Order

Measure for Measure :  Law and Order, Picklocks and Prunes

Much Ado

Play much concerned with reinforcement of patriarchal values.

Myths of Empire

Myths of Empire, State, and Nation in Marlovian and Shakespearean Texts.

Political Plays

Shakespeare’s Political Plays:  Sports of Honour and Dignity in Henry IV.

Political Plays Insert

The theme runs through to Troilus and Cressida where Hector, leader among Trojans, confounds expectations by arguing against the return of Helen which constitutes the case for rectitude.

Shakespeare Remembered

Shakespeare Remembered by his Stuart Successors:  Reflections on the 2005 ‘Gunpowder Season’ at the Swan Theatre in Stratford.

Shame and Guilt

Between Shame and Guilt: from Much Ado to Hamlet.

Something of Great Constancy

‘Something of Great Constancy’: Representing and Reading Fairies on the Tudor Stage

Teaching Shakespeare

Teaching Shakespeare through Film-Making at the University of Sheffield

This Realm

‘This Realm of England is an Empire’:  Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Jonson and the making of the English State.

Timon of Athens

 ‘A Private Man in Athens’:  Shakespeare's Timon, Theatre Wars, Culture-Clashes, and the Play's Afterlife.

Troilus and Cressida

The theme runs through to Troilus and Cressida where Hector, leader among Trojans, confounds expectations by arguing against the return of Helen which constitutes the case for rectitude

The View from Dover Cliff

In 4.6 of King Lear, Edgar, still dressed as Poor Tom, drops his Mummerset accent without explanation and starts to speak in blank verse.

What does it mean to speak of the English Renaissance

Within the three parts of these volumes, we approach the question in a variety of ways.

White Devil

Could this be ‘Price and Value’     

Value rises from the intrinsic goodness of things;  worth from the estimation of them.

Any questions please contact:

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Judi Hattaway

Arborfield, Berkshire

JudiHattaway@mac.com

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