Overview
Background
Dr Victoria Bladen is an Associate Lecturer in literary studies at the University of Queensland. Her publications include The Tree of Life and Arboreal Aesthetics in Early Modern Literature (Routledge, 2022); seven Shakespearean text guides in the Insight Publications (Melbourne) series: The Taming of the Shrew (2021); Much Ado About Nothing (2020); The Merchant of Venice (2020); Measure for Measure (2015), Henry IV Part 1 (2012), Julius Caesar (2011), and Romeo and Juliet (2010); and eight co-edited volumes including Shakespeare on Screen: Romeo and Juliet (Cambridge UP, 2023), Onscreen Allusions to Shakespeare (Palgrave, 2022); Shakespeare and the Supernatural (Manchester UP 2020) and Shakespeare on Screen: King Lear (Cambridge UP 2019).
PhD (UQ), Graduate Certificate in Higher Education (UQ), MPhil (Medieval and Renaissance Studies) (UWA), LLB (Hons) (UWA), BA (UWA).
Availability
- Dr Victoria Bladen is:
- Available for supervision
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
Research interests
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early modern literature
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adaptation - Shakespeare on Screen
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ecocriticism; environmental humanities
Works
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2024
Book Chapter
The forest palimpsest in As You Like It and the medieval imaginary
Bladen, Victoria (2024). The forest palimpsest in As You Like It and the medieval imaginary. Medieval afterlives: transforming traditions in Shakespeare and early English drama. (pp. 283-310) edited by Daisy Black and Katharine Goodland. Manchester, United Kingdom: Manchester University Press.
2023
Book Chapter
Introduction - From Canon to Queer: Romeo and Juliet on Screen
Bladen, Victoria, Hatchuel, Sarah and Vienne-Guerrin, Nathalie (2023). Introduction - From Canon to Queer: Romeo and Juliet on Screen. Shakespeare on Screen: Romeo and Juliet. (pp. 1-29) edited by Bladen, V, Hatchuel, S and Vienne-Guerrin, N. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
2023
Book
Shakespeare on Screen: Romeo and Juliet
Victoria Bladen, Sarah Hatchuel and Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin eds. (2023). Shakespeare on Screen: Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare on Screen, Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781009200905
2023
Book Chapter
Aquatic and Celestial Space in Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo plus Juliet (1996)
Bladen, Victoria (2023). Aquatic and Celestial Space in Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo plus Juliet (1996). Shakespeare On Screen: Romeo and Juliet. (pp. 62-78) edited by Bladen, V, Hatchuel, S and Vienne-Guerrin, N. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
2022
Book Chapter
Elsinore's ecosystem: the natural and the supernatural in Hamlet
Bladen, Victoria (2022). Elsinore's ecosystem: the natural and the supernatural in Hamlet . Hamlet in the twenty-first century. (pp. 133-147) edited by Victoria Bladen and Yan Brailowsky. Paris, France: CNED- Belin Education.
2022
Book Chapter
Antipodean Shakespeares: appropriating Shakespeare in Australian film
Bladen, Victoria (2022). Antipodean Shakespeares: appropriating Shakespeare in Australian film. Onscreen allusions to Shakespeare: international films, television, and theatre. (pp. 33-55) edited by Alexa Alice Joubin and Victoria Bladen. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-93783-6_3
2022
Book
Hamlet in the twenty-first century
Victoria Bladen and Yan Brailowsky eds. (2022). Hamlet in the twenty-first century. Paris, France: CNED; Belin Education.
2022
Book
Onscreen allusions to Shakespeare: international films, television, and theatre
Alexa Alice Joubin and Victoria Bladen eds. (2022). Onscreen allusions to Shakespeare: international films, television, and theatre. Global Shakespeares, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-93783-6
2022
Book Chapter
Introduction to onscreen allusions to Shakespeare
Joubin, Alexa Alice and Bladen, Victoria (2022). Introduction to onscreen allusions to Shakespeare. Onscreen allusions to Shakespeare: international films, television, and theatre. (pp. 1-12) edited by Alexa Alice Joubin and Victoria Bladen. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-93783-6_1
2022
Book
The tree of life and arboreal aesthetics in early modern literature
Bladen, Victoria (2022). The tree of life and arboreal aesthetics in early modern literature. New York, NY USA: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003180043
2020
Book Chapter
Two tragedies of love: Romeo and Juliet and Othello
Bladen, Victoria (2020). Two tragedies of love: Romeo and Juliet and Othello. The Cambridge companion to Shakespeare on screen. (pp. 92-104) edited by Russell Jackson. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108367479.009
2020
Book
William Shakespeare's The merchant of Venice
Bladen, Victoria (2020). William Shakespeare's The merchant of Venice. Cheltenham, Victoria: Insight Publications.
2019
Book Chapter
Introduction: dis-locating King Lear on screen
Bladen, Victoria, Hatchuel, Sarah and Vienne-Guerrin, Nathalie (2019). Introduction: dis-locating King Lear on screen. Shakespeare on screen: King Lear. (pp. 1-30) Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108589727.001
2019
Book
Shakespeare on screen: King Lear
Victoria Bladen, Sarah Hatchuel and Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin eds. (2019). Shakespeare on screen: King Lear. Shakespeare on Screen, Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108589727
2019
Book Chapter
Looking for Lear in The Eye of the Storm
Bladen, Victoria (2019). Looking for Lear in The Eye of the Storm. Shakespeare on screen: King Lear. (pp. 185-201) edited by Victoria Bladen, Sarah Hatchuel and Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108589727.012
2019
Book
William Shakespeare's Much ado about nothing
Bladen, Victoria (2019). William Shakespeare's Much ado about nothing. Cheltenham, Victoria: Insight Publications.
2017
Journal Article
Performing the Child Motif in Kurzel’s Macbeth (2015)
Bladen, Victoria (2017). Performing the Child Motif in Kurzel’s Macbeth (2015). Anglistik, 28 (2), 129-137.
2017
Book Chapter
Screen magic in Peter Greenaway’s Prospero’s Books and Julie Taymor’s The Tempest
Bladen, Victoria (2017). Screen magic in Peter Greenaway’s Prospero’s Books and Julie Taymor’s The Tempest. Shakespeare on screen: The Tempest and late romances. (pp. 215-231) edited by Sarah Hatchuel and Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781316286449.014
2015
Journal Article
Pastoral retreat and green texts: the 2009 Globe production of Love's Labour's Lost
Bladen, Victoria (2015). Pastoral retreat and green texts: the 2009 Globe production of Love's Labour's Lost. Australian Literary Studies, 30 (2), 29-43. doi: 10.20314/als.6fad022437
2015
Book Chapter
Othello on screen: monsters, marvellous space and the power of the tale
Bladen, Victoria (2015). Othello on screen: monsters, marvellous space and the power of the tale. Shakespeare on screen: Othello. (pp. 24-42) edited by Sarah Hatchuel and Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/CBO9781316272060
Supervision
Availability
- Dr Victoria Bladen is:
- Available for supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Master Philosophy
Metamorphosis: change, transformation and shapeshifting
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Bronwyn Lea
Completed supervision
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2021
Master Philosophy
Eleven Portraits of Drowning: Writing the Ecopoetic Body
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Bronwyn Lea
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