Specialties
Books
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The Improbability of Othello: Rhetorical Anthropology and Shakespearean Selfhood Shakespeare’s dramatis personae exist in a world of supposition, struggling to connect knowledge that cannot be had, judgments that must be made, and actions that need to be taken. For them, probability—what they and others might be persuaded to believe—governs human affairs, not certainty. Yet negotiating the space of probability is fraught with difficulty. Here, Joel B.... |
Selected Publications and Papers Delivered
"Julio at the Crossroads: Intertextuality, Intermediality, and Transfiguration in 'The Winter's Tale,' Harvard Renaissance Colloquium, April 2012. "'Your sorrow was too sore laid on': Shakespeare and the Subject of Ekphrasis." University of St. Andrews, UK, October 2011; Shakespeare Association of America, Bellevue WA, April 2011. "Giulio Romano and the Rhetoric of Visual Representation in 'The Winter's Tale.'" Doreen Townsend Center for the Humanities, Berkeley, April 2010.
Current Research
Shakespeare and the Visual Arts.