John Gillies is Professor Emeritus in literature at the University of Essex. Publications include Shakespeare and the geography of difference (CUP, 1994), “The question of original sin in Hamlet”, Shakespeare Quarterly, 64:4 (2013), and, “The Conversational Turn in Shakespeare”, Études Epistémè, 33 (2018).
He spoke at the event, Shakespeare and the Reactionary Mind (2024), on “Shakespeare and the first plebeian secession”, and at Shakespeare and the Enlightenment (2016).
Shakespeare in Philosophy 