MONOGRAPHS

Hamlet’s Dreams: The Robben Island Shakespeare. The Arden Shakespeare. London: Bloomsbury, 2013.

Shakespeare, Love and Service. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Paperback edition: 2012.

Literature and the Touch of the Real. University of Delaware Press, 2004.

Speech and Performance in Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Plays. Cambridge University Press, 2002. Paperback edition: 2007.

Forthcoming:

The Connell Guide to Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night”. Chippenham, Wiltshire: Connel Guides.

In preparation:

Love’s Transgression in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries. (In collaboration with Robert Weimann) Portrait and Proxy: Authority and Representation from Christopher Columbus to Heiner Müller.

EDITED COLLECTIONS

The Shakespearean International Yearbook: Special Section, The Achievement of Robert Weimann. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010.

With Stephen Gray, Modern Stage Directions. Cape Town: Maskew Miller Longman, 1984.

In preparation:

With Michael Neill. The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy.

With Lynne Magnusson. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

TRANSLATIONS

Another Country, English translation of Karel Schoeman's novel 'n Ander Land. London: Sinclair Stevenson, 1991. Paperback edition: London and New York: Picador, 1994.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

“Cressida: Proper Names and Common Bodies”. Shakespeare’s World of Words. Ed. Paul Yachnin. London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2015, 50-66.

“Othello’s Consummation”. Othello. Ed. Ann Thomson and Lena Orlin. Arden State of Play. London: Bloomsbury, 2014.

“Mandela’s Stoicism”. The Cambridge Companion to Nelson Mandela. Ed. Rita Barnard Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Foreword to South African Essays on ‘Universal’ Shakespeare. Ed. Chris Thurman. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2014.

“Shakespeare’s Untranslatability”. Transnational Mobilities in Early Modern Theater, ed. Robert Henke and Eric Nicholson. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2014, 229-44.

“The Conceptual Investigations of Shakespeare’s Sonnets”. T59-7he Oxford Handbook to Shakespeare’s Poetry. Ed. Jonathan Post. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, 467-85.

“Music, Food and Love in the Affective Landscapes of Twelfth Night”. Twelfth Night: Critical Essays, ed. James Schiffer. New York: Garland, 2011, 81-98.

“Wittgenstein and Sebald: The Place of Home and the Grammar of Memory”. Language and World, Part: Signs, Minds and Actions. Ed. Volker Muntz, Klaus Puhl, and Joseph Wang. Heusenstamm: Ontos Verlag, 2010, 317-45.

“Can women be friends? Montaigne, Shakespeare and the Grievance of Friendship”. Shakespeare and France. Ed. Ruth Morse. Paris: Cahiers Charles V, 2008.

“The Trans-Theatrical Displacements of Henry V”. Transnational and Transcultural Exchange in Early Modern Drama: Theater Crossing Borders. Ed. Robert Henke London, Ashgate, 2008.

“Shakespeare’s Poetry and Performance”. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s Poetry. Ed. Patrick Cheney. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, 241-59.

“Sonnet 144”, Ten Shakespeare Sonnets: Critical Essays. Ed. Michael Hanke and Michael R.G. Spiller. Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2006, 111-9.

“Wittgensteins >>unvollkommener Garten<<. Die Leitern und Labyrinthe von Philosophie als Dichtung”. Wittgenstein und die Literatur. Ed. John Gibson and Wolfgang Huemer. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2006, 84-109.

“Mandela’s ‘Missing’ Manuscript: Appropriation and Repression in Accounts of Robben Island Prison”. Leaves to a Tree Ed. Robin Malan. Cape Town: David Philip, 2005, 205-17.

“Evil, Truth and Reconciliation”. Evil, Truth and Reconciliation. Ed. Margaret Breen. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2005, 3-44.

“Wittgenstein’s ‘imperfect garden’: the ladders and labyrinths of philosophy as Dichtung”. The Literary Wittgenstein. Ed. John Gibson and Wolfgang Huemer. London and New York: Routledge, 2004, 55-74.

“Chronotopes of the Self in the Writings of Women Political Prisoners in South Africa”. Apartheid Narratives. Ed. Nahem Yousaf. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2001, 1-36.

"Writing from Prison”. Senses of Culture: South African Culture Studies. Ed. Sarah Nuttall and Cheryl Ann Michael. Cape Town: Oxford University Press, 2000, 278-97.

“'Speaking Wittgenstein all Along': Stephen Greenblatt and the Intellectual Contexts of the New Historicism". Critical Self-Fashioning: The New Historicism of Stephen Greenblatt. Ed. Jurgen Pieters. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1999.

"The Authority of Experience or the Tyranny of Discourse: An Inescapable Impasse?" South African Feminisms: Writing, Theory and Criticism 1990-1994. Ed. M.J. Daymond. New York and London: Garland, 1996, 57-76.

"Elsa Joubert: Women and Domestic Struggle in Poppie Nongena". Women and Writing in South Africa. Ed. Cherry Clayton. Johannesburg: Heinemann, 1989, 253-74.

Forthcoming:

“Hierarchy”, Cambridge World Shakespeare Encyclopaedia. Gen. ed. Bruce Smith Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

“Coriolanus: A Tragedy of Language”. Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy. Ed. Michael Neill and David Schalkwyk. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

“’The Curse of Service’ in Three Jacobean Tragedies”. A Handbook of Renaissance Studies. Ed. John Lee. Oxford: WileyBlackwell.

Conference proceedings:

“Robben Island Revisited”. Proceedings from the Inter-Disciplinary Conference on Prison Writing, Vienna, September 2002. Ed. Danine Farquharson.

"Locked-up Saussure". The Proceedings of the Conference of the South African Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Cape Town, September 1993. Ed. L. Marx. Cape Town: 1994.

Opening Address on Shakespeare’s The Tempest, directed by Oh Tae Suk. Proceedings of the 19th Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium in the Korean Humanities: Staging Korea: Korean Theatre in Search of New Aesthetics, George Washington University. Ed. Young-Key Kim-Renaud.

Articles in peer-reviewed journals:

“Cursing to Learn: The Speech Acts of The Tempest”, Shakespeare Survey 66 (2013).

“Shakespeare’s Poetic Will: The Grammar of Character and Moral Agency in the Poems”, Shakespeare Studies XL (2012): 26-35.

“’Love’s Transgression’: Service, Romeo, Juliet, and the Finality of the You”, The Shakespearean International Yearbook 11 (2011): 111-48.

“The Impossible Gift of Love in The Merchant of Venice and the Sonnets”, Shakespeare, 7.2 (2011): 142-155.

“Is love an Emotion?: Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and Antony and Cleopatra”, Symploke: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Mixing of Discourses, 18.1-2 (2011): 99-130.

“Text and Performance, Reiterated”, The Shakespearean International Yearbook: Special Section, The Achievement of Robert Weimann (2010): 47-76.

“The Discourses of Friendship and the Structural Imagination of Shakespeare’s Theatre: Montaigne, Twelfth Night, De Gournay”, Renaissance Drama New Series 38 (2010): 141-172.

“Giving Intention Its Due”, Style 44.3 (Fall 2010): 311-27.

“Shakespeare’s Speech”, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 40.2 (Spring 2010): 373-400.

“Hamlet’s Dreams”, Social Dynamics 32.1 (2006): 1-21.

“Untranslatable Shakespeare”, Shakespeare in Southern Africa 18 (2006): 37-48.

“Between Historicism and Presentism: Love and Service in Antony and Cleopatra and The Tempest”, Shakespeare in Southern Africa 17 (2006): 1-19.

“Shakespeare’s Ghosts”, Shakespeare 1.2 (2005): 219-40.

“Love and Service in The Taming of the Shrew and All’s Well That Ends Well”, Shakespearean International Yearbook 5 (2005): 3-43.

“Love and Service in Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Twelfth Night”, Shakespeare Quarterly 56.1 (2005): 76-100.

“A Report to the Academy: Talbot Taylor and the rhetorical roots of contemporary language theory”, Language Sciences 27 (2005): 97-112.

“Race, Body and Language in Othello and the Sonnets”, English Studies in Africa, 47.2 (2004): 5-24.

Wittgenstein “gazos kertje”: A filozófia mint Dichtung létrái és labirintusai”. Helikon: Irodalomtudományi Szemle. Wittgenstein poétikája. 4 (2004): 589-610.

“Historicism in Purgatory”, Pretexts: Literary and Cultural Studies 11.1 (2002): 75-92.

“Shakespeare’s Talking Bodies”, Textus: English Studies in Italy 13.2 (July-December 2000): 277-302. (With Lerothodi Lapula).

“Sol Plaatje, William Shakespeare, and the Translations of Culture”, Pretexts 9.1 (July 2000): 9-26.

“’The Chronicles of Wasted Time?”: Shakespeare’s Sonnets Revisited”, English Academy Review 16 (2000): 121-144.

"The Singularity of Apartheid: Derrida on the Links and Gaps between Words, Concepts, and Things", Language Sciences, 22.2 (April 2000): 167-192.

"‘What May Words Do?’:The Performative of Praise in Shakespeare’s Sonnets”, 1998 Yearbook of Shakespeare Criticism, 49.3 (1999): 251-68.

"From the Globe to Globalization: Shakespeare and Disney in a Postmodern World", Journal of Literary Studies 15 (1/2) (June 1999): 33-65.

“Portrait and Proxy: Representing Plaatje and Plaatje Represented”, Scrutiny 2, 4.2 (1999): 14-29.

"‘What May Words Do?’: Representation, Performance and Performative in Antony and Cleopatra and the Sonnets", Shakespeare Quarterly, 49.3 (Fall 1998)

"The Rules of Physiognomy: reading the convict in South African prison", Pretexts, 7.1 (1998): 81-96.

"What does Derrida mean by 'the text'?" Language Sciences, 19.4 (October 1997): 381-390.

"Why the Social Bond Cannot Be a Passing Fashion: Reading Wittgenstein Against Lyotard", Theoria, 89 (June 1997): 116-31.

"Wittgenstein and Lyotard on Language, Knowledge and Certainty", Journal of Literary Studies, 12.1 (March 1996): 86-111.

"Saussure, Names, and the gap between Word and World", Journal of Literary Semantics XXIV/2 (August 1995): 127-48.

"Why Linguistic Signs are not Substitutes for Something Else", Pretexts, Cape Town, Vol 5, No 1 (Winter 1995): 14-30.

"Fiction as 'Grammatical' Investigation: A Wittgensteinian View", Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 53.3 (Summer 1995): 287-98.

“‘She never told her love’ Embodiment, Textuality and Silence in Shakespeare's Sonnets and Plays”, Shakespeare Quarterly, 45.4 (Winter 1994): 381-407.

"Language, Grammar, and the Objects of Fiction: A Wittgensteinian View", Symploke: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Mixing of Discourses, 2.1 (1994): 29-47.

"Confession and Solidarity in the Prison Writing of Breyten Breytenbach and Jeremy Cronin", Research in African Literatures, 25.1 (Spring 1994): 23-46.

"The Shock of the Old: Theory and the Renaissance - Recent Books on Shakespeare", Pretexts, Cape Town, 4.1 (Winter 1992): 68-85.

"'A Lady's "verily" is as potent as a Lord's': Women, Word and Witchcraft in The Winter's Tale", English Literary Renaissance, 22.2 (Spring 1992): 242-72.

"The Meaning of the Wor(l)d: Value, Sense and Reference in Not Saussure by Raymond Tallis", Journal of Literary Studies (December 1991): 193-217.

"Wittgenstein and the Social and Historical Functions of Literature", The English Academy Review, 7 (December 1990): 68-88.

"The Authority of Experience vs. the Tyranny of Discourse: A Problem for Feminism?" Current Writing, 2 (October 1990): 45-71.

"The Role of Imagination in A Midsummer Night's Dream", Theoria, Pietermaritzburg, LXVI (1986): 52-65.

"The Flight from Politics: An Analysis of the South African Reception of Poppie Nongena", The Journal of Southern African Studies, Oxford, 12.2 (April 1986): 183-95.

"A Social Theory of Language: Ludwig Wittgenstein and the Current Theoretical Debate", Journal of Literary Studies, 1. 2 (April 1985): 43-58.

In press

(With Ruth Morse). “This Earth”. Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen.