Dr Victoria Bladen
Associate Lecturer
School of Communication and Arts
+61 7 336 52982
Researcher biography
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).
Books
Bladen, Victoria (2022). The tree of life and arboreal aesthetics in early modern literature. New York, NY USA: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003180043
Bladen, Victoria (2020). William Shakespeare's The merchant of Venice. Cheltenham, Victoria: Insight Publications.
Bladen, Victoria (2019). William Shakespeare's Much ado about nothing. Cheltenham, Victoria: Insight Publications.
Bladen, Victoria (2015). Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Insight Publications.
Bladen, Victoria (2011). Henry IV part 1: William Shakespeare. St Kilda, VIC, Australia: Insight Publications.
Bladen, Victoria (2011). William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. St Kilda, VIC, Australia: Insight Publications.
Bladen, Victoria (2010). William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Elsternwick, Vic., Australia: Insight Publications.
Book Chapters
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
Bladen, Victoria and Harmes, Marcus (2015). The intersections of supernatural and secular power. Supernatural and Secular Power in Early Modern England. (pp. 1-14) edited by Marcus Harmes and Victoria Bladen. Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate Publishing.
Bladen, Victoria (2015). Shaping supernatural identity in The Witch of Edmonton (1621). Supernatural and Secular Power in Early Modern England. (pp. 95-116) edited by Marcus Harmes and Victoria Bladen. Farnham, Surrey, United Kingdom: Ashgate Publishing.
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
Bladen, Victoria (2013). Weird space in macbeth on screen. Shakespeare on screen: macbeth. (pp. 81-106) edited by Sarah Hatchuel, Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin and Victoria Bladen. Mont-Saint-Aignan, France: Presses Universitaires de Rouen et du Havre.
Bladen, Victoria (2011). The ghost and the skull: Rupturing borders between the living and the dead in filmed Hamlets. Shakespeare on screen: Hamlet. (pp. 143-174) edited by Sarah Hatchuel and Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin. Le Havre, France: Universities De Rouen Et Du Havre.
Bladen, Victoria (2011). Imagining Zeus and the Zeus of Olympia in early modern culture. The statue of Zeus at Olympia: New approaches. (pp. 173-188) edited by Janette McWilliam, Sonia Puttock, Tom Stevenson and Rashna Taraporewalla. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Bladen, Victoria (2010). The "Tree of Life" and the King's arboreal bodies in Shakespeare's Cymbeline. "Rapt in secret studies" : Emerging Shakespeares. (pp. 213-229) edited by Darryl Chalk and Lawrence Johnson. Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Bladen, Victoria (2010). Pruning the tree of virtue in in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus. 'This earthly stage': World and stage in late medieval and early modern England. (pp. 39-61) edited by Brett D. Hirsch and Christopher Wortham. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols.
Bladen, Victoria (2009). The lopped lavinia-tree: Intersections of fallen terrain between William Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus (1594) and Julie Taymor's Titus (2000). Shakespeare on screen: The Roman plays. (pp. 67-103) edited by Sarah Hatchuel and Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin. France: Publications des Universities De Rouen Et Du Havre.
Bladen, Victoria (2008). Andrew Marvell and the tree of life. Renaissance Poetry and Drama in Context: Essays for Christopher Wortham. (pp. 269-284) edited by Lynch, Andrew and Scott, Anne M.. Newcastle UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Bladen, Victoria (2008). Arboreal language and otherness in Andrew Marvell's "Upon Appleton House" (1651). Langue et altérité dans la culture de la Renaissance. (pp. 101-129) edited by Lecercle, Ann and Brailowsky, Yan. Paris, France: Presses Universitaires de Paris Ouest.
Bladen, V. (2007). The tree of life motif as renaissance cultural rhizome: An interdisciplinary mapping of arboreal imagery in biblical text, early European visual culture and dramatic text (Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus). Rhizomes: Connecting Languages, Cultures and Literatures. (pp. 133-154) edited by N. Ramiere and R. Varshney. UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Bladen, V. I. (2005). Man Ray: Light, camera and the unbearable lightness of being. Man Ray: Life, work & themes. (pp. 25-29) edited by E Bledsoe et al. St Lucia: Vanguard Press.
Journal Articles
Bladen, Victoria (2023). Aquatic and Celestial Space in Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo plus Juliet (1996). Shakespeare On Screen: Romeo and Juliet, 62-78.
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, 1-29.
Bladen, Victoria (2017). Performing the Child Motif in Kurzel’s Macbeth (2015). Anglistik, 28 (2), 129-137.
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
Bladen, Victoria (2014). Landscape and Mansfield Park. Sensibilities, 48, 25-40.
Bladen, Victoria (2013). Scott, Anne M., Alfred Hiatt, Claire McIlroy, and Christopher Wortham, European Perceptions of 'Terra Australis'. Parergon, 30 (1), 272-274. doi: 10.1353/pgn.2013.0007
Bladen, Victoria (2012). When Jane met William: dialogues between Austen and Shakespeare. Sensibilities, 45, 61-90.
Bladen, Victoria (2012). The rock and the void: pastoral and loss in Joan Lindsay's Picnic at Hanging Rock and Peter Weir's film adaptation. Colloquy (23), 159-184.
Bladen, Victoria (2011). Francis Cruickshank, Verse and Poetics in George Herbert and John Donne.. Parergon, 28 (2), 188-190.
Bladen, Victoria (2011). Vintage Shakespeare. Parergon, 28 (1), 258-260. doi: 10.1353/pgn.2011.0042
Bladen, Victoria (2011). Chloe Houston. Ed. New Worlds Reflected: Travel and Utopia in the Early Modern Period.. Parergon, 28 (2), 201-203. doi: 10.1353/pgn.2011.0078
Bladen, Victoria (2010). Of Books and Botany in Early Modern England: Sixteenth-Century Plants and Print Culture. Parergon, 27 (1), 229-231. doi: 10.1353/pgn.0.0209
Bladen, Victoria (2009). Medici Gardens: From Making to Design (review). Parergon, 26 (1), 221-223. doi: 10.1353/pgn.0.0143
Thesis
Bladen, Victoria (2008). Imagining the Tree of Life : the language of trees in Renaissance literary and visual landscapes. PhD Thesis, School of English, Media Studies and Art History, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/177578
Creative Works
Bladen, V. I. (2004). William and the Winter's Tale. St Lucia, Qld., Australia: Vanguard: Australian Legal Philosophy Students Association..
Bladen, V. I. (2004). Walking through the university: a translation of place & mind. St Lucia: Vanguard Press.