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Offer insight into representation of ancient Greeks by Shakespeare’s contemporaries. Discusses significance of Hecuba and Helen in Rape of Lucrece, Hamlet, and Troilus and Cressida. Focuses on Shakespeare’s sympathetic depiction of female figures. Portuguese summary, 36; English summary, 37.

Explores Merchant of Venice’s intricate relationships between Jewish and Christian characters, arguing that "the economical power of the Jew is the crux of his demonization." English and Portuguese summaries, 67.

Analyzes Richard III, Hamlet, King Lear using Michel Foucault's theoretical frameworks on personal and institutional governability. English summary, 146; Portuguese summary, 145.

Employs six different techniques to assess authorship and co-authorship to analyze relative contributions of Shakespeare and John Fletcher to Two Noble Kinsmen. Portuguese and English abstracts, 49-50.

Examines representations of ghosts on stage in eighteenth-century European musical theater, centering on "pathos of the rhetorical apostrophe."  Considers influence of Hamlet and King Hamlet's Ghost on eighteenth-century representations of ghosts. English and French summaries, online. 

Considers influence of King Hamlet's ghost on Voltaire's composition of tragedies Ériphyle (1732) and Semiramis (1748). Discusses dramatic, symbolic, and aesthetic functions of Voltaire's ghosts.

Investigates appearance of Shakespeare's ghost in Restoration adaptation of Measure for Measure by Charles Gildon, entitled Beauty the Best Advocate (1700). Evaluates Shakespeare's ghost in "making the epilogue both a memory factory, a negotiation zone between the theatrical medium, its history and its memory, and a critical space in every sense of the term." English and French summaries, online.

Surveys wide range of Caroline drama, specifically by James Shirley, in order to investigate scenes of stage hauntings and "paradramatic moments of spectral misprision." Considers Shakespearean influence on Shirley in form of ghosts and specters in Hamlet, Richard III, Macbeth, and King Lear. English and French summaries, online. 

Charts evolution of stage ghosts performance in early modern drama, considering issues of tangibility and visibility. Evaluates Shakespeare's use of ghosts, particularly in Hamlet, against such evolving patterns of stage apparitions. English and French summaries, online. 

Investigates Agamemnon's haunting in Tragedy of Orestes (1613-1618) by Thomas Goffe. Asserts Agamemnon's "split presence" is "dramatic, symbolic and visual knot of the play." Considers influence of King Hamlet's Ghost on Goffe in writing Agamemnon.