Evan Hixon

Evan Hixon is a PhD candidate in English at Syracuse University. His research centers on early modern British drama and political writing, with an emphasis on Shakespeare, Marlowe and Jonson. His dissertation examines representations of spies and informants in the works of early modern English dramatists.

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November 2019

Cloaked in Eyes and Ears: Reading Surveillance Culture Through the Early Modern Stage (5 Nov. 2019)

They Come Not Single Spies: What Surveillance Meant to Shakespeare’s Audiences (19 Nov. 2019)

Millions of False Eyes: Responding to Surveillance (26 Nov. 2019)

Hell’s Black Intelligencers: Shakespeare and Our Current Fears of Surveillance (3 Dec. 2019)

November 2018

Will No One Rid Me of This Turbulent Media? (6 Nov. 2018)

“Cry Havoc and Let Slip the Dogs of War”: Julius Caesar and the Power of Rhetoric (13 Nov. 2018)

“If Thou Consider Rightly of the Matter”: Intent, Interpretation, and the Fear of Rhetoric (12 Nov. 2018)

“Enter RUMOUR, painted full of tongues”: Virality and the Dangers of Rhetoric (27 Nov. 2018)

December 2017

“I am Richard II, Know Thee not that”: Drama and Political Anxiety in Shakespeare’s London (15 Dec. 2017)

“I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him”: Shakespeare and the Politics of Interpretation (8 Dec. 2017)

November 2016

“Popp’d in Between th’ Election and My Hopes”:  Using Shakespeare to Understand Contemporary Politics (4 Nov. 2016)

“In Troy There Lies the Scene”:  Teaching Students to Think About Shakespeare (11 Nov. 2016)

“Bring in The Crows to Peck the Eagles:” Rewriting the Politics of “Coriolanus” (18 Nov. 2016)

“Report Me and My Cause Aright:” Hamlet and the Political Power of Dramatic Narrative (26 Nov. 2016)

April 2016

Hated, Feared and Loved: Popular Representations of Nicollo Machiavelli (8 Apr. 2016)

‘You win or You Die’: Game of Thrones and Machiavellian Amorality (15 Apr. 2016)

Privileged Positions:  House of Cards and Frank Underwood’s Machiavellian Monologues (22 Apr. 2016)

Machiavelli’s “Small Volume”:  The Legacy of the Stage Machiavel (29 Apr. 2016)