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Catherine E. Wheeler, assistant director. Sets by Tiana Horrilhon-Wood, costumes by Maci Hosler, and lighting by Stacey Walston.

Produced by the Southwest Shakespeare Company (https://swshakespeare.org) at the Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ, 17 March-1 April 2023.

With Aaron Angelo (Antony), Cynnita Agent (Cleopatra), Sam McInerney (Octavius), Kenneth Chambers (Enobarbus), Mace Archer (Agrippa), Matthew Simmerer (Eros/Pompey/Proculeus), Alejandra Luna (Charmian), Gracie Gamble (Iras), Avery Jones (Mardian/Euphronius), Jim Coates (Dolabella/Soothsayer/Canidius), Elizabeth Broeder (Octavia), Issie Ocampo (Alexas), Carlos Beltran (Thidias), Ian Nuzzle (Lepidus/Clown), Tom Magnum (Philo/Scarus/Menas), and Rapheal J. Hamilton (Maecenus).

Recounts COVID-19 pandemic's impact on author's production of Antony and Cleopatra at Madrid Off venue El Umbra de Primavera. Reflects on effects of pandemic on Spanish Shakespearean theatre scene.

Discusses Royal Shakespeare Company’s thirty-minute experimental production of Dream (adaptation of Midsummer Night’s Dream, q.v.), which united live performance with motion capture technology, 3D graphics, and interactive gaming techniques and focused on Puck and fairies. Reflects on role of technology and online performances for Shakespeare following COVID-19 pandemic. English summary, 85.

Provides introduction to Jean Aicard’s poem, "Molière à Shakspeare." Outlines context of poem and motivation behind poem's recitation in June 1879 as prologue to forty-performance season at Gaiety Theatre in London. Compares poem to one-act play, also written by Aicard and also influenced by Shakespearean themes. English summary, 3. 

Graphic novel adaptation of Twelfth Night set in high school. Illustrated by Jamie Green. Lettering by Chris Dickey.

Discusses how many online Shakespeare resources are marketed as accessible for teachers, students, and general audiences, but fail to implement adequate accesibility features. Argues digital Shakespeare resources should be "radically accessible and inclusive by incorporating both Universal Design approaches and Disability Studies perspectives." English summary, online.

Employs network theory and analysis to present new method of examining cross-dressing in plays by Shakespeare. Argues "cross-dressing protagonists propel themselves from isolated social worlds into a complex web of relationships through cross-dressing, and that entry into sociability follows predictable patterns." Investigates how such patterns create hybrid character roles visible in network analysis. English summary, online. 

Applies trauma theory to early modern discussions and representations of grief and its transmission to others. Considers Winter's Tale, exploring "how Shakespeare imagines and mobilizes the aggrieved Hermione; and how her departure and repeated, belated returns play out different forms and effects of traumatic response." English summary, online. 

Discusses Jude Morgan's biofictional novel, The Secret Life of William Shakespeare (2012, q.v.). Examines how novel seeks to reconcile Shakespeare's two personas, that of family man and that of playwright. English summary, online.

Investigates Shakespeare’s exploration of private justice, vengeance, and compassion through references to Hecuba in Titus Andronicus. Italian summary, online.