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Shakespeare Comics: Q&A with the author

A Q&A on the making of Shakespeare Comics - exploring how graphic novels and manga adapt Shakespeare's plays and what they reveal about art, time, and culture.

July 10, 2025
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Napoleon holds a crown and stands above a kneeling Josephine in Notre Dame Cathedral. They are surrounded by a large crowd of people and all are dressed similarly in bright colors.

Ridley Scott’s Napoleon: From Uniformed Soldier to Costumed Emperor

by Brontë Hebdon Early in Ridley Scott’s Napoleon (2023), Bonaparte and Josephine de Beauharnais see each other for the first time. Their eyes meet across the room at one of the infamous post-terror bals des victims, and both are immediately…

Edinburgh University Press
December 6, 2023

Shakespeare Comics: Q&A with the author

Ridley Scott’s Napoleon: From Uniformed Soldier to Costumed Emperor

Shakespeare Comics: Q&A with the author

Chasing the Dragon

The Writer as Memory Activist

Translating Bréhier: How did The Theory of Incorporeals in Ancient Stoicism come to be?

Feeling the Rainbow: LGBT Rights and Reforms