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David Rowland

David Rowland

David Rowland holds a PhD in English and Theatre Studies from the University of Melbourne.

‘Coriolanus: Bell Shakespeare pursues the personal realm’ by David Rowland

ABR Arts 28 July 2025
Among the plays of William Shakespeare, Coriolanus has garnered more respect than love. William Hazlitt, writing in 1816, in the wake of the French Revolution, thought that the play could spare its audience the trouble of reading Edmund Burke or Thomas Paine. The play’s depiction of class division fascinated Bertolt Brecht, who worked on his own adaptation, seeing in the play’s protagonist a f ... (read more)

David Rowland reviews ‘Shakespeare’s Tragic Art’ by Rhodri Lewis

June 2025, no. 476 26 May 2025
In 1588, with England facing the threat of Spanish invasion, Elizabeth I visited her troops assembled at Tilbury to deliver some rousing words: ‘I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.’ This assertion, the idea that the body politic was eternal and existed in a sacred realm beyond historical time, was ideally ... (read more)