Michael Saenger
Southwestern University, English, Faculty Member
- English Literature, Translation Studies, Book History, Renaissance literature, Shakespeare, Complexity Theory, and 102 moreBen Jonson, Early Modern History, Theatre History, Thomas Nashe, Languages and Linguistics, French language, Poetics, Genre Theory, History Of London, Literature, History, Economic History, William Shakespeare, Global Shakespeare, Early Modern England, English, Gender, Advertising, Affect (Cultural Theory), James Joyce, Intertextuality, Orality-Literacy Studies, Ovid, Peter Burke, Print Culture, Bibliography, Satire & Irony, Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Macbeth, Zora Neale Hurston, Pericles, Martial 'Epigrams', Literary allusions, Doctor Faustus Christopher Marlowe, Caedmon's Hymn, Merry Wives of Windsor, Coriolanus, Jean Baudrillard, English and American Studies, Yorkshire Tragedy, Spenser studies, Critical Theory, Comparative Literature, Feminist Theory, Literary Theory, Theatre Studies, Queer Theory, Performance Studies, Medieval Literature, Renaissance Studies, History of the Book, Gender Studies, Early Modern Literature, Shakespearean Drama, Early Modern English drama, English Renaissance Literature, Renaissance Literature (Renaissance Studies), Interlinguicity, Cultural History, Nationalism, Public Space, John Milton, Lexical Semantics, Medieval Studies, Psychoanalysis, Ethnic Studies, Multi- & Bilingualism & Biliteracy, Women's Studies, Poetry, Material Culture Studies, Spanish Literature, Spanish Literature (Peninsular), Literature Review, Literatura española del Siglo de Oro, Ecocriticism and Ecofeminism, Literatura española, Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Law and Literature, Irish Literature, Structuralism/Post-Structuralism, Critical and Cultural Theory, Deleuze, Historiography, Medieval Chronicles, Hamlet, Queenship (Medieval History), Queenship in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Indeterminacy, 16th century England, Wolfgang Iser, 15th century England, Wars of the Roses, Art History, Derrida, Cultural Encounters, Cultures of Capital and Capitalism, Butler, Idiological and cultural Studies, Renaissance drama, and Literary Criticismedit
- Michael Saenger teaches and writes on Shakespeare and early modern culture.edit
Research Interests: English Literature, Spanish, Welsh linguistics, Literature, Shakespeare, and 16 moreEnglish language, Deconstruction, Adaptation, Literary Theory, Film Adaptation, Postmodernism, Linguistics, Shakespearean Drama, Literary Linguistics, Translation, Dutch History, Webster, History of Navarre, Neologisms, English Neologisms, and Interlinguicity
There is currently a great interest among scholars of early modern culture in the theory of translation, the emergence of national consciousness, and the role of foreign languages and foreign people in fiction and society. There have... more
There is currently a great interest among scholars of early modern culture in the theory of translation, the emergence of national consciousness, and the role of foreign languages and foreign people in fiction and society. There have been many localized studies of these issues with respect to Shakespeare, with no consensus as to how they should be addressed. This lack of consensus is understandable, because there are fundamentally different questions at play: How were foreigners characterized in England? How does Shakespeare stage them? How was translation perceived? How were foreigners received, legally, economically and socially? Are postcolonial and psychoanalytic methodologies useful in addressing these questions? Can current developments in translation theory be applied to the Renaissance? The diversity of this discourse is useful to my investigation of Shakespeare and France, because France has such a complex presence in England. In the first chapter, I construct a methodology for approaching Shakespeare’s treatment of England’s most significant neighbor, which Sir Philip Sidney called a “sweet enemy.” The subsequent chapters are divided by genre; I argue that Shakespeare uses the idea of France in different ways in history, comedy and tragedy. Thus, I articulate new ways to explore dramatic genre, and I advance the understanding of language and national identity in the early modern marketplace. This study emerges from a wide, interdisciplinary conversation, and is designed to be relevant to that conversation, but most of this work is a structured exploration of Shakespeare’s plays. The book offers strategic analysis of a wide range of Shakespeare's works, sustained original readings of three plays, and two subtle expansions of Shakespeare's sources. Most importantly, it offers a coherent theorization of Shakespeare's treatment of France.
Research Interests: History, Gender Studies, English Literature, Translation Studies, Feminist Theory, and 27 moreFrench Studies, Marxism, Literature, Renaissance Studies, Shakespeare, Historiography, Translation theory, Legal Theory, Identity (Culture), Nationalism, English, History Of London, Early Modern England, French language, Cultural Memory, Schleiermacher, Social History, French Language Teaching, Early Modern English drama, France, Ben Jonson, Anglo-Norman ("Law French"), Shakespeare's History Plays, All's Well that Ends Well, Source Study, Anglo-French artistic and intellectual exchange, and Interlinguicity
This essay assesses two dominant modes of understanding William Shakespeare's effect on world cultures. Those two modes are anchored on the ideas of tradition and commerce. Each offers valuable insight but also carries with it inherent... more
This essay assesses two dominant modes of understanding William Shakespeare's effect on world cultures. Those two modes are anchored on the ideas of tradition and commerce. Each offers valuable insight but also carries with it inherent limitations. This essay borrows from recent interdisciplinary work on ecosystems to offer a third way of approaching the life of Shakespeare's work in the centuries after his death. We suggest that this third mode, which can be called " naturecultural " , offers fresh ethical perspectives on Shakespeare's life in contemporary culture. This article is published as part of a collection to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death.
Open access link: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/articles/palcomms201665
Open access link: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/articles/palcomms201665
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In Thomas Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday, Firke is normally concerned with sexual humor, but he makes an allusion to mythological bawdry that has not been noted. In a familiar myth, Vulcan is suspicious of the chastity of his wife,... more
In Thomas Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday, Firke is normally concerned with sexual humor, but he makes an allusion to mythological bawdry that has not been noted. In a familiar myth, Vulcan is suspicious of the chastity of his wife, Venus.'To test her, he places an invisible metal net in the marriage bed. When Vulcan leaves, Mars arrives, and as Mars and Venus jump into the bed they are caught motionless, in the act.
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Research Interests: Translation Studies, Comedy, Renaissance Studies, Shakespeare, Translation theory, and 11 moreIdentity (Culture), Biblical Studies, Catholic Theology, Renaissance drama, Shakespearean Drama, History of English Language, •Translation Theory, Methods and Practice, Translation and Language Learning, Application of Linguistic Theory to Translation., Vernacularity, History of the English Language, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Romeo and Juliet
Jonson animates The Alchemist with an intersection of languages. In this moral satire, he captures the layered dialects, specialized vocabularies, and social desires of London and holds them up for view. This essay examines the play's... more
Jonson animates The Alchemist with an intersection of languages. In this moral satire, he captures the layered dialects, specialized vocabularies, and social desires of London and holds them up for view. This essay examines the play's negotiation of “vertical” and “horizontal” translation, with some reference to Shakespeare's treatment of overlapping languages, and that of a contemporary Catholic treatise on translation. Jonson's conclusion is that the friction between languages offers opportunities for cheats to thrive onstage and off, and that the predominant language of this world is sin, from which only lucid repentance can “translate” us. His satire thus stands on godly ground, but his insight is useful for the current study of translated and adapted literature, particularly Shakespeare.
Research Interests: Interlinguistics, Translation Studies, Renaissance Studies, Shakespeare, Translation theory, and 22 moreReformation Studies, Drama, Biblical Studies, History Of London, Literary Theory, Shakespeare and film, Renaissance drama, Ovid, Linguistics, Shakespearean Drama, Early Modern English drama, History of English Language, Ben Jonson, Theatre, Satire & Irony, Interlanguage Pragmatics, Recusant Studies, •Translation Theory, Methods and Practice, Translation and Language Learning, Application of Linguistic Theory to Translation., Shakespeare adaptation, Richard II, The Alchemist, and Interlinguicity
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... | Ayuda. Will Stephen Wrest Vanity from Falstaff?: 929. Autores: Michael Baird Saenger; Localización: James Joyce quarterly, ISSN 0021-4183, Vol. 35, Nº 1, 1997 , pag. 152. © 2001-2011 Universidad de La Rioja · Todos los derechos... more
... | Ayuda. Will Stephen Wrest Vanity from Falstaff?: 929. Autores: Michael Baird Saenger; Localización: James Joyce quarterly, ISSN 0021-4183, Vol. 35, Nº 1, 1997 , pag. 152. © 2001-2011 Universidad de La Rioja · Todos los derechos reservados. XHTML 1.0; UTF‑8.
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Аннотация Discusses the parallelism between William Shakespeare's Coriolanus character and Ovid's Cadmus character from the dramaMetamorphoses.'Transformation of Coriolanus and Cadmus into peace-loving men; Comment on the... more
Аннотация Discusses the parallelism between William Shakespeare's Coriolanus character and Ovid's Cadmus character from the dramaMetamorphoses.'Transformation of Coriolanus and Cadmus into peace-loving men; Comment on the allusions to Ovid by the Menenius character inCoriolanus.'
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“To say that Shakespeare went to Holinshed for the history of Mucbeth,” writes James Nosworthy,“but to Marlowe's Doctor Fuustus for the tragedy of Mucbeth... is not wholly without justification.”'Shakespeare typically... more
“To say that Shakespeare went to Holinshed for the history of Mucbeth,” writes James Nosworthy,“but to Marlowe's Doctor Fuustus for the tragedy of Mucbeth... is not wholly without justification.”'Shakespeare typically took the rough edges off his sources, and Mucbeth is filled with references and inti-
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Review of Shit-Faced Shakespeare's performance of Midsummer Night's Dream
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Performed by the Poor Shadows of Elysium, Directed by Joe Falocco
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This brief essay considers the question of whether the Boycott, Divest, Sanctions movement is designed to critique Israel or to harass Jews at Western Universities.... more
This brief essay considers the question of whether the Boycott, Divest, Sanctions movement is designed to critique Israel or to harass Jews at Western Universities.
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The victory of Donald Trump exposes major problems in American culture that we should address collectively.
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The labeling of Israeli Settlement products is illegal and part of a political culture where code words are used to hide sexism, racism and anti-Semitism.
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We seek abstracts of papers that address issues of translation in a variety of aspects: source adaptation, linguistic change both to and from Shakespeare, theatrical adaptation and the Shakespearean depiction of translation, migration and... more
We seek abstracts of papers that address issues of translation in a variety of aspects: source adaptation, linguistic change both to and from Shakespeare, theatrical adaptation and the Shakespearean depiction of translation, migration and exile. We are particularly interested in ways of approaching the idea of translation that activate multiple layers of time, and divergent histories. Jonathan Gil Harris's influential concept of the polychronic object (e.g., a palimpsest) is a particularly useful model for how to understand Shakespeare's position as an interpreter of and a subject for various understandings of art and time. We invite papers that address the idea of translation in relation to Shakespeare, in particular as such translation relates to ideas of temporality as well as cultural and linguistic difference. Our conversation will be enriched by the many examples of the physical manifestation of the different temporal perspectives to be found in Rome, our host city for the conference.
Deadline for submission of abstracts: December 15
Deadline for submission of abstracts: December 15
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As part of a celebration of Shakespeare's Birdthday, there will be a Monologue Showcase and a lecture from Dr. Saenger on the relevance of Shakespeare to the present time.
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Chaucer and Shakespeare, the global literary icons, play a major role in the digital world. This cross-disciplinary symposium puts the legacies of Chaucer and Shakespeare in conversation with each other. Speakers will explore the... more
Chaucer and Shakespeare, the global literary icons, play a major role in the digital world. This cross-disciplinary symposium puts the legacies of Chaucer and Shakespeare in conversation with each other. Speakers will explore the intersections and connections between the afterlives of Chaucer and Shakespeare in world cultures.