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Describes staging of Hamlet Act 1, Scene 5 with three actresses in order to evaluate differences in playing ghostly character versus live character. Seeks to make creative processes visible in order to reflect "on the spectral dimension of the notion of the dramatic character." English and French summaries, online. 

Examines role and function of Margaret of Anjou in Richard III. Describes Margaret’s apparitions as "ghostlike scenes," which should be understood in dramatic context of revenge tragedy. Examines Margaret's structural function in the development of plot and argues that she serves as not “male revenger” but "revenant" or “ghostly figure" who is staged "as remembrance." English and French summaries, online.

Examines friendly ghosts in early modern English drama, particularly ghost of Jack in George Peele's Old Wife's Tale (1595). Considers paradoxical nature of friendly ghosts and how Jack "facilitates the happy dénouement of the main plot of the play-within." Considers in relation to friendly or benign ghosts in Shakespeare, such ghosts of Posthumus’s parents and brothers in Cymbeline. English and French summaries, online. 

Examines ghosts in Cretan tragedies Erophili and Zeno to evaluate ghosts' dramatic necessity. Investigates why Cretan ghosts are often absent from spectral studies. Discusses similarities between ghosts in Cretan drama with Shakespearean ghost, linking apparations to political crisis. French and English summaries, online. 

Examines principal function of stage ghosts in early modern drama, including ghosts as "tragic sign, a dramaturgic marker, a spectacular operator, a cathartic instrument, a demonological operator, a political trick." Argues ghosts serve Aristotelian description of drama, filling duties closely aligned with tragic genre. Considers Ghost in Hamlet. English and French summaries, online. 

Argues "digital distractions," like virtual reality, can be "productive disruption" to help students access Shakespeare and "make the text their own." Discusses how instructors can take advantage of technology to develop pedagogy focused on multiple kinds of student reading and learning.

Discusses challenges to teaching Shakespeare using virtual reality in at University of Melbourne. Considers specifically two virtual reality projects featuring scenes from Taming of the Shrew and Julius Caesar. 

Investigates Shakespearean influence on consumption of cinema by twentieth and twenty-first century viewers. Argues "cinematic apparatus" embraces Shakespearean perspective, thus mirroring mechanics of virtual reality. 

Discusses virtual reality as medium through which instructors can engage students in processes of "shared meaning-making." Asserts virtual reality does not only bring new meaning to Shakespeare, but that Shakespeare can bring new meaning to virtual reality. 

Includes seven essays on Shakespeare.