“More” Tribulations of the Self: I Fashioneth, I Taketh Away
Stephen Greenblatt’s chapter “At the Table of the Great: More’s Self-fashioning and Self-cancellation,” in Renaissance Self-fashioning: From More to Shakespeare, posits that Thomas More’s self-formation...
Othello and the Drama of Basic Cable: A Lesson Plan
Preface: Playwrights and journalists tell stories; reality is for the courts to decide. The question of OJ's guilt or innocence will be tested by various...
Old English Boethius, the Power of Différance and Translation
In order to appreciate this sordid-by-modern-standards translation of Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy, it was necessary for me to place it further into context within (1)...
Shakespeare’s Prince: A Lesson Plan for Contemplating Shape-Shifting & Authenticity in Shakespeare’s Henry IV Part 1
“It is necessary for a prince, who wishes to maintain himself, to learn how not to be good and to use this knowledge and not...
Uncovering the Self: Stoic, Early Christian, and Foucauldian Self-Care through Self-Knowledge
In “Hermeneutics of the Self” Foucault writes of self-care as a form of self-governance, and therefore a self-governance that is coerced by those in power...