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Using examples from Julius Caesar and Romeo and Juliet, postulates that digital projects can provide scholars with "a synoptic view" to better understand "memories of texts and forms" in reception and source studies. Introduces SENS: Shakespeare's Narrative Sources: Italian Novellas and Their European Dissemination (q.v.). English summary, 263.

Evaluates potential of computational approaches to understanding meter in literary works by Shakespeare and other authors; contends that criticism must blend close reading and distant reading approaches to analyze prosody. English summary, 265.

Explores allusions to Shakespeare (primarily Romeo and Juliet) in the video game The Sims 2, set in Veronaville. Suggests that The Sims 2 "democratizes literary response" with its "open-ended gameplay." English summary, 264.

Surveys film adaptations of King Lear, as well as adaptations of adaptations. Positions Joseph L. Mankiwiecz's House of Strangers (1949) and Edward Dmytryk's Broken Lance (1954) as "possibly not-Shakespeare-adaptation" whose ties to Shakespeare are shaped in the eye of the beholder; suggests that Don Boyd's My Kingdom and Sangeeta Datta's Life Goes On (q.v. both) are purposeful intertexts that explore King Lear. English summary, 264.

Argues that Michael Almereyda's Cymbeline (q.v.) effectively uses Halloween iconography, notably fairy tale and dark elements, to capture the genre of late romance and theme of reconciliation. English summary, 264.

Traces "different modes of circulation of Shakespeare’s plays and poems" in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, focusing on publication format, anthologies, commonplace books, and quotations in the "Beauties" tradition. English and French summaries, online.

Argues that online pandemic performances of Shakespeare's works demonstrates the "limitations of physical theatre" and reveals how theatre can be made more accessible. English and French summaries, online.

Considers how poets write portraits, explicating the function of comparisons in Shakespeare's sonnet 18.

Prequel to King Lear. Play.

By Erin Shields. Guillermo Verdecchia, dramaturg. Aria Evans, assistant director. Robert Harding, stage manager. Sets by Ken MacKenzie, costumes by Judith Bowden, lighting by Kimberly Purtell, sound and composing by Thomas Ryder Payne.

Prequel to King Lear. With Damien Atkins (Edgar), Helen Belay (Cordelia), Oliver Dennis (Gloucester), Sheldon Elter (Kent), Virgilia Griffith (Goneril), Breton Lalama (Olena/Oswald), Tom McCanus (Lear), Nancy Palk (Old Woman), Jordan Pettle (Albany), Philip Riccio (Cornwall), Vanessa Sears (Regan) and Jonathon Young (Edmund).