Martin Orkin: Publications
A Books i. Authored Books (** denotes refereed or accredited books)
1. ** Shakespeare Against Apartheid , Johannesburg: Ad Donker, 1987. 198 pp.
Reviews include: i. Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare Folger Library USA, 39:2, Summer
1988 pp.242-247. ii. Shakespeare Survey, Cambridge University Press, 42, 1990, pp.165-6. iii. Textual Practice, Routledge, 3:1, Spring 1989,(Catherine Belsey, author of
Critical Practice, The Subject of Tragedy, John Milton, Desire, and
Professor of English and Chair of the Centre for Critical and Cultural
Theory, University of Wales) pp. 139-141. iv. New Coin, 5:4, Spring 1987 (Tim Couzens) pp.42-3. v. South African Journal on Human Rights, (David Schalkwyk) 4:3, 1988, pp.397-402. vi. Kleio, XX, 1988, pp.112-3. vii. Studies in English Literature, 29, 1989, pp.381-2. viii. The book is also discussed in works including
Radical Tragedy by Jonathan Dollimore, Hertfordshire: Harvester, 1989,
Classics and Trash by Harriet Hawkins, Hertfordshire: Harvester, 1990,
Hamlet vs Lear by RA Foakes, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1993, pp. 76-7.
Gender Race Renaissance Drama by Ania Loomba, Manchester:
Manchester University Press, 1989
Desire and Anxiety by Valerie Traub, London: Routledge, 1992.
2. **Drama and the South African State , Manchester: Manchester University
Press, 1991. 263pp.
Reviews include: i. New Theatre Quarterly, Cambridge University Press, VIII: 31, August
1992,p. 293. ii. Australasian Studies, 20, April 1992,(Gareth Griffiths co-author The
Empire Writes Back, Routledge, 1989, co-editor of The Post-Colonial Studies
Reader Routledge, 1995) pp.147-9. iii. Literature Today, Summer 1992. iv. Africa,62:2, 1992, p.295-6.
v. Forum Modernes Theater , Band 7, Heft 1/92, pp.102-105.
vi. Research in African Literatures, 109-112. vii. Pretext, 4:1, Winter 1992 pp.99-108.

viii. Unisa English Studies, pp. 64-66. ix. Literature and History, Third Series, pp.133-135 (Awam Amkpa)
The work is also discussed in Walder, Dennis, ‘Resituating Fugard: South
African Drama as Witness’,
New Theatre Quarterly, VII:32, November, pp.343-361.
3. Monograph:
Reading On the Black Hill: a critical study of Bruce Chatwin’s novel
,
Johannesburg: Blackwood Press, 1991. Monograph. 67pp
4. *Local Shakespeares: Proximations and Power, London and New York:
Routledge, 2005. 220 pp ii. Edited Books
1. ** At the Junction: Four Plays by the Junction Avenue Theatre Company ,
- Edited and Introduced by Martin Orkin, Johannesburg: Witwatersrand
University Press, 1995. 300pp
The Introductions to the volume and to each play - which run to over fifty pages authored by the editor – provide brief accounts of the work of the
Junction Avenue Theatre Company and of the nature of Workshop Theatre in the context of traditions of naturalism and realism in establishment South
African Theatre. They also provide critical accounts of each of the four texts.
In addition to the introductory material by the editor, Tooth and Nail, collated and edited by the editor from several conflicting extant scripts and notes surviving from the original productions, is here published for the first time. The recovery of this play from diverse versions as well as its inclusion in this volume is directly the result of the editor’s initiative.
The volume also contains The Fantastical History of a Useless Man,
Randlords and Rotgut and Sophiatown together with several pertinent
interviews/articles published in earlier single editions of the plays.
Reviewed in ‘Working with your Realities’ Miki Flockemann, The Southern
African Review of Books, 42, March/April 1996, pp.5-6.
2. ** Postcolonial Shakespeares , London: Routledge, 1998, 308pp. Reprinted
2003 ed Ania Loomba and Martin Orkin.
This volume contains an Introduction by Ania Loomba and Martin Orkin and essays by Terence Hawkes, Jerry Brotton, Avraham Oz, Jonathan Burton, Kim
Hall, Jonathan Dollimore, Ania Loomba, Michael Neill, Margo Hendricks,
Nick Visser, Martin Orkin, David Johnson and Andreas Bertoldi.

B.
Articles in Refereed Journals (** denotes refereed articles)
PUBLISHED:
1. **‘The poor cat’s adage and other Shakespearean proverbs in Elizabethan grammar-school education’, English Studies in Africa , Vol 21:2, 1978, pp.79-
89.
2. **‘Shakespeare’s “clothes of gold and rich veluet weede” - proverb allusions, especially in Othello
’,
UNISA English Studies , Vol XVII:1 1979, pp.18-26.
3. **‘Modes of Speaking in Shakespeare’s Tragedies’, Theoria , Vol 53, 1979, pp.59-69.
4. **‘Holofernes and the Transvaal Senior Schools Certificate’, Crux , Vol 16:3,
1982, pp.27-36.
5. **‘
Every day is not holiday - proverb idiom in
Henry IV Part 1’
, UNISA English
Studies , Vol XX:2, 1982, pp.1-5.
6. **‘Languages of deception in
Volpone
’,
Theoria , Vol LIX, 1982, pp.39-49.
7. **‘Right-Seeing and the matriculation Twelfth Night’ , Crux , Vol 17:3, 1983, pp.40-49.
8. **‘A Proverb Allusion and a Proverbial Association in 1 Henry IV’ , Notes and
Queries, New Series, Vol 30:2, 1983, pp.120-121 (Oxford).
9. **‘
Hamlet and the Security of the South African State’, Contrast , Vol 15:2, 1984, pp 56-75.
10. **‘Shakespeare’s
As You Like It’ , The Explicator , Vol 42:2, Winter 1984, pp.5-7
(USA).
11. **‘Shakespeare’s Henry IV, 1’
, The Explicator , Vol 42:2, Summer 1984, pp.11-
12 (USA).
12. ‘A cluster of proverb allusions in Julius Caesar’
, Notes and Queries , New
Series,
Vol 31:2, 1984, pp.195-6 (Oxford).
13 . **‘ After a collar comes a halter in
1 Henry IV’
, Notes and Queries , New Series,
Vol 31:2, 1984, pp.188-9 (Oxford).

14 **‘Sir John Falstaff’s Taste for Proverbs in Henry IV Part 1’ , English Studies ,
Vol 65:5, 1984, pp.392-404 (Amsterdam).
15 **‘
He shows a fair pair of heels in 1 Henry IV and Elsewhere’, English
Language Notes, Vol XXIII:1, 1985, pp.19-23 (USA).
16. . **‘Civility and the English Colonial Enterprise: Notes on Shakespeare’s
Othello’
, Literature in South Africa Today , special issue of Theoria, Vol 68,
1986, pp.1-14
17. **‘
Othello and the “plain face of racism”’, Shakespeare Quarterly , Vol 38:2,
1987,
pp.166-188 (Shakespeare Folger Library, Washington DC).
18. . **‘Cruelty, King Lear and the South African Land Act 1913’,
Shakespeare Survey , Vol 40, 1987, pp. 135-143 ( Cambridge University Press).
19. .**‘Body and State in
Blood Knot/The Blood Knot’
, South African Theatre
Journal, Vol 2:1, 1988, pp. 17-34.
20. **‘Touchstone’s Swiftness and Sententiousness’, English Language Notes , Vol
XXVII:1, 1989, pp. 42-7 (USA).
21. ** ‘“This bit of the world is ours” - Butler’s national theatre of the fifties’, South
African Theatre Journal, Vol 4:2, 1990, pp.87-98.
22. ** ‘Shakespeare and the Politics of “Unrest”’,
The English Academy Review , Vol
8, 1991, pp.85-97.
23. ** ‘Whose Popular Theatre and Performance?’, South African Theatre Journal ,
Vol 6:2, 1992, pp.30-42.
24. ** ‘The Politics of Editing the Shakespeare Text in South Africa’, Current
Writing, Vol 5:1, 1993, pp.48-59.
25. ** ‘Re-presenting The Tempest in South Africa (1955-1990)’, Shakespeare in
Southern Africa, Vol 6, 1993, pp.45-60. Appeared mid-1994.
26. **‘Possessing the Book and Peopling the Text’ Etudes Theatrales/Essays in
Theatre , (Canada) Vol 15:1, November 1996, pp.44-57.
27. ** ‘A sad tale’s best for South Africa?’ Textual Practice (Routledge, United
Kingdom) 11(1), 1997, pp. 1-23.
28. ** ‘Male Aristocracy and Chastity Always Meet: Proverbs and the Representation of

Masculine Desire in As You Like It
’,
Journal of Theatre and Drama , Vol 3,
1997, pp.59-82.
29. ** ‘Whose Muti in the Web of It?: Seeking “Post”-Colonial Shakespeare’, The
Journal of Commonwealth Literature , Volume 33, Number 2, 1998, pp.15-37.
30. ** ‘Proverbial Allusion in Julius Caesar
’,
Pretexts: studies in writing and culture ,
Vol 7, No 2, 1998, pp.213-234.
31. ** ‘Theatre and the Inescapability of Histories,’ Journal of Theatre and Drama ,
Vol 5/6, 1999/2000, pp.215-229.
32. ** ‘Shifting Shakespeare,’ Publications of the Modern Language Association
(PMLA), Vol 118, Number 1, January 2003, pp.134-6.
C.
Articles or Chapters in Books which are not Conference Proceedings
(** denotes refereed chapters )
1. ** Reader in the Language of Shakespearean Drama , ed. V.Salmon and
E.Burness, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1987. Contains: ‘The poor
cat’s adage and other Shakespearean Proverbs in Elizabethan Grammar
School Education’ by Martin Orkin, pp.489-498.
Other Contributors include: Randolph Quirk, Bridget Cusack, Charles
Barber, Michael Warren, Brian Vickers, Margreta de Grazia.
2. **Critical Essays on Shakespeare’s Hamlet , ed David Scott Kastan, New
York: G.K. Hall, 1995. Contains ‘
Hamlet and the Security of the South
African State’ by Martin Orkin, pp.171-197.
Other contributors include Stephen Booth, Michael Goldman, Inga-
Stina Ewbank, David Bevington, Margaret W. Ferguson, Jaqueline
Rose, Barbara Everett, Lisa Jardine.
3. **Theatre and Change in South Africa , ed Geoffrey V.Davis and Anne
Fuchs, Amsterdam: Harwood, 1996. Contains ‘Whose Popular Theatre and Performance?’ by Martin Orkin, pp.49-64.
Other Contributors include Brian Crow, Robert McLaren, Jerry
Mofokeng, Anthony Akerman, Ari Sitas, Zakes Mda, Fatima Dike.
4. ** Shakespeare and National Culture ed John J Joughin, Manchester: Manchester
University Press, 1997. Contains ‘Whose Things of Darkness?
Reading/Representing The Tempest in South Africa after April 1994’ by Martin Orkin. pp.142-169.
Other Contributors include Graham Holderness, Andrew Murphy,
Simon Barker, Richard Wilson, Willy Maley, Ania Loomba, Robert
Weimann, Thomas Healy, Francis Barker, Curtis Breight, John
Drakakis.
5.**Postcolonial Shakespeares , ed. Ania Loomba and Martin Orkin, London:

Routledge, September 1998. Contains: ‘Shakespeare and the postcolonial question’ by Ania Loomba and Martin Orkin, pp.1-19.
Other Contributors Include: Andreas Bertoldi, Jerry Brotton, Jonathan
Burton, Jonathan Dollimore, Kim Hall, Terence Hawkes, Margo
Hendricks, David Johnson, Ania Loomba, Michael Neill, Avraham Oz,
Nicholas Visser.
6.** Postcolonial Shakespeares , ed. Ania Loomba and Martin Orkin, London:
Routledge, September 1998. Contains: ‘Possessing the Book and
Peopling the Text’ by Martin Orkin, pp. 186-201.
7.** Shakespeare and Race, ed. Catherine M S Alexander and Stanley Wells,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Contains, ‘Cruelty,
King Lear and the South African Land Act 1913’, by Martin Orkin, pp.
151-164.
Other Contributors include Margo Hendricks, Bernard Harris, G.K.
Hunter,Barbara Everett, Wole Soyinka, Balz Engler, Michael Dobson,
James Shapiro, Laurence Lerner, Jonathan Bate, Celia Daileader,
Ania Loomba.
8.** The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare , ed Michael Dobson, Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2001. Entries on East Africa, West Africa and
Southern Africa
9.**The Female Tragic Hero in English Renaissance Drama , ed. Naomi Conn
Liebler, New York: Palgrave,2002. Contains, ‘As if a man should spit
against the wind’ pp.141-160.
10.** Shakespeare and the Language of Translation, ed Ton Hoenselaars, London:
Arden, 2004, ‘
“I am the tusk of an elephant” Mabatha, Titus and
SeZaR in Johannesburg,' pp. 270-286.
E. Other Publications i.
Media
1.
The Star , Saturday November 30 1985, p.10 - Interview
2. The Star . Friday July 17 1987, p.12 - Interview.
3. The Star
, Tuesday March 26 1991, ‘Looking to the Future of SA Theatre’ -
Interviewed by Michael Shafto.
4. The Star Tonight
, Thursday September 5 1991 p. 4 ‘O Brave New World that
hath such people in it’ - article on the World Shakespeare Congress, Tokyo.

5. The Star Tonight
, Wednesday June 21, 1995, p.4, article ‘Viva Shakespeare?
The politics involved in the teaching of the Bard’.
6. The Sunday Independent
July 28, 1996, p.4, ‘A look through the eyes of
Shakespeare casts a fresh light on our society’. ii. Book and Other Reviews/Interviews/Letters
1. ‘Quintessence of Dust’ - review of a production of
Hamlet , Speak , Vol 1:3,
1978, pp.46-7.
2. Review of The Future of the University in Southern Africa , ed Hendrik W van der
Merwe and David Welsh, African Studies , Vol 37:2, 1978, pp.311-313.
3. Interview with Malcolm Purkey entitled ‘Drama in Education - Ghandi in South
Africa - the Play’ , The English Academy Review , Vol 2, 1984, pp.63-67.
4. London Review of Books
, 13 June 1991 (letter on the ‘Bardbiz’ controversy,
cited in Terence Hawkes, Meaning by Shakespeare , London: Routledge, 1992,
p.154).
5. The English Academy Review , Vol 10, 1993, pp. 187-8 (letter).
6. Interview in
Gendai Shisou (Revue de la Pensee d’aujourd’hui)
(Seido-sha
Publishing Company, Tokyo) ed. Yoshihiko Ikegami, Dec 1996, vol 24-15.
7. Review of David Johnson, Shakespeare and South Africa , (Oxford, 1996) in
The Weekly Mail and Guardian, October 25-31, 1996.
8. Review of Susan Bennet, Performing Nostalgia (Routledge, 1996) in
Ariel (University of Calgary) 28:2, April, 1997, pp.186-189.
9. Review of Research in African Literatures Special Issue: Drama and
Performance ed John Conteh-Morgan and Tejumola Olaniyan, Vol 30, no 4,
Winter, 1999, in Modern Drama , 43:40, Winter 2000.
10. Review of The Dramatic Art of Athol Fugard: From South Africa to the World
by Albert Wertheim (Indiana, 2001), in Modern Drama , Vol 45, No 2,
Summer, 2002.
11. Review of Remaking Shakespeare: Performance Across Media, Genres and
Cultures , ed Pascale Aebischer, Edward J. Esche and Nigel Wheale, (Palgrave,
2003) in Shakespeare Quarterly vol 55, 2004, Number 4, pp 488-491
12. Review of Playing Australia: Australian Theatre and the International Stage ,
ed Elizabeth Schafer and Susan Bradley Smith, (Amsterdam, 2003) in
Australian Literary Studies , Vol 22, No 1, 2005, pp 123-6.
iii. Local Media Reviews

Reviews of i. ii.
iii iv.
Shakespeare Against Apartheid
The Weekly Mail,
Business Day
The Star
Reviews of
in the South African Press:
3:34, Friday August 28-Sept 3 1987, p.19.
, Monday August 24 1987, p.5.
.Inside South Africa , September 1987, p.13.
, Tuesday September 29 1987, p.3M.
Drama and the South African State in the South African Press: i.
The Star , Monday April 8, 1991, Book of the Week, p.10. ii.
iii.
Sunday Star Review
The Weekly Mail
April 21 1991, p.11.
, April 26 - May 2 1991, Literary Supplement p.3.
F. Other Works and Activities Connected with My Scholarly Field
Presentations:
1. ‘Voices from a Troubled Land: Athol Fugard interviewed by Martin Orkin’
- video produced by the Witwatersrand University Central Television
Unit
May 1990
2. ‘Talk at Will’ South African Broadcasting Corporation, SAFM, Interview
on Shakespeare in South Africa 27 June 1996, SAFM 08.30-09.30.
3. BBC World Service , Interview: ‘Shakespeare’s Globe: South Africa’ 7
April 1994, 1130/1715 GMT, 8 April 1994, 230 GMT.