Ewan Fernie
Biography
Ewan Fernie is Chair of Shakespeare Studies at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. His publications include, Shakespeare for Freedom, Shame in Shakespeare, The Demonic: Literature and Experience, and the cowritten novel Macbeth, Macbeth. He was academic anchor for the BBC’s Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius and is finishing a book called Anti-Hero about the life and after-life of Thomas Carlyle.
Articles by Ewan Fernie
2026
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Ideas
Make the Gruel Thick and Slab
A new, engaging study of Shakespeare’s tragedies opens up deeper, more general questions as well as way of thinking better and farther about the complex…