Stefanie C Peters

New essay at The Millions: Found (Again): Shakespeare’s Lost Play Double Falsehood

5/31/10 •

I was so deliriously happy that The Millions decided to publish an essay of mine on May 18 that I forgot to post it on my own website until now. In “Found (Again): Shakespeare’s Lost Play Double Falsehood,” I discuss the strange history of Shakespeare’s “lost” play Cardenio, or Double Falsehood. It involves illegitimate children, [...]

Three new articles on Mad Shakespeare

5/07/10 •

My Shakespeare magazine, MadShakespeare.com, has been growing at an incredible pace. My pulse races every time I sign on to Google Analytics and see how many visitors we’ve had.
If you haven’t seen the site, of course I encourage you to head on over. In particular, here are a few of my own recent articles:

Book Review: [...]

New essay at BiblioBuffet: My Brain on E-books

4/12/10 •

I’m very happy to announce that I have had a new essay published over at BiblioBuffet, called “My Brain on E-books“. I summarize my (admittedly limited) knowledge of how the brain works and what happens to it when we read online, and make a connection–I hope not too far-fetched–between what reading on the Internet does to our brains and depression.

Precis of my dissertation: A study of Shakespeare’s portrayal of the figure of the writer

9/24/09 •

My dissertation discussed whether Shakespeare portrayed writers he knew as characters in his plays. Juliet Dusinberre, who edited As You Like It for The Arden Shakespeare, believes that he often created characters who speak with the voice of the author of the work that was Shakespeare’s source for that particular play. Her examples are Friar [...]