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Discusses second British recipient of COVID-19 vaccine, 81-year old-man named William Shakespeare, and interest this sparked in European and British news media connecting event to playwright William Shakespeare. Notes puns and jokes journalists made connecting contemporary Shakespeare to his famed early modern counterpart, such as  "The Gentleman of Corona" and "Taming of the Flu".  Italian summary, online.

Investigates phenomenon of literary tourism related to Shakespeare. Discusses David Garrick's 1769 Shakespeare Jubilee as motivating "pilgrimmages" to Stratford-upon-Avon and describes how Shakespeare's birthplace and family homes emerged as national icons of Englishness. 

Describes experience of teaching Geofferey Sax’s made-for-TV adaptation of Othello, which places action to contemporary London. Briefly overviews history of Othello’s adaptations throughout centuries and argues importantce of Geofferey Sax’s production on its engagement with students. Argues play serves anti-racist pedagogy. English summary, online. 

Studying legacies of cultural colonialism in India, considers how themes from Taming of the Shrew influence Bollywood film Sherni, noting how film deploys Shrew trope to resist patriarchy. English summary, online. 

Interviews costume and set designer Nina Wetzel about her work for Thomas Ostermeier Nuit des rois (2018), focusing on Wetzel drawing inspiration from Twelfth Night’s preoccupation with textiles, and Wetzel’s resultant experiments with fur, silks and skins for Nuit des rois. Explores English and French summaries, online. 

Analyzes history, production, and language of 140 Latinx Shakespearean productions in United States since 1960s. Considers music, accents, use of Spanish language and other signifiers of Latinx culture in Shakespeare productions. Cites Robbins' West Side Story (1960, q.v.) as key origin of and influence on Latinx Shakespeare. Focuses on adaptations and performances of Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Henry IV. 

Discusses process of falling in love in Romeo and Juliet as frame to discuss psychology of romantic relationships as presented in Jane Austen's novels. English summary, 433.

Uses insights from trust theory to explore significance of “ambivalent-trust trope” in Tempest. Focuses on troubled trust between Prospero and Caliban. English summary, 421.

Explores the complex relationship between poetry and emotion, examining where feeling in poetry resides—in poet, reader, or poem itself. Discusses various theoretical approaches to question, including those of Aristotle, Kant, Heidegger, Hegel, T. S. Eliot, Deleuze and Fish. Tests theories with reference to poems by Shakespeare, Milton, Elizabeth Bishop, and W.S. Merwin.

Surveys theoretical approaches to location of emotions evoked by poetry from Aristotle’s rhetoric, Kant’s aesthetics, and Heidegger’s poetics, through T.S. Eliot’s and Deleuze’s reception of poetics to G. Gabrielle Starr and Stanley Fish’s affective stylistics. Uses Shakespeare’s sonnets as reference to demonstrate theoretical premises. English summary, 383.

Investigates rhetorical mode of Shakespearean apostrophes. Argues that Shakespearean apostrophe offers new perspective for formalist and historicist approaches to emotions. Focuses on “Juliet’s address to ‘fiery footed steeds’; Lear’s address to the storm to ‘blow winds and crack your cheeks’; Lady Macbeth’s invocation to spirits to ‘unsex me here’; and Edmund’s apostrophe in King Lear to the goddess Nature to ‘stand up for bastards.’” English summary, 343.