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Studies instances when Shakespeare's sonnets have been translated by individuals in positions of confinement or displacement.
"Discusses how Tamayo y Baus appropriates and refashions in Un drama nuevo the figures of Shakespeare and Yorick, as well as different elements of a number of other tragedies by Shakespeare (Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello), in order to render homage to Shakespearean drama by means of a play that, even if set at the beginning of 17th-century England, particularly addresses the tastes and concerns of 19th-century Spanish audiences." Explores the initial reception of Un drama nuevo and its role in increasing interest in Hamlet in the Spanish-speaking world. English and Slovenian summaries, 71.
Explores how reported speech--which is a speech act and which, in Shakespeare's plays, "is nearly always loaded, alive with implication, motive, or mystery"--in Winter's Tale "can serve as an index to the peculiar nature and complexity of [an] action." French summary, 127.
Edith Pargeter's A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury, Denise Giardina's Good King Harry, and Robert Nye's Falstaff to "study the transformation of plays into novels . . . and the relationship between historical drama, historical fiction, and the corresponding events in history. English summary, 129.
Considers the printing of the 1634 edition of Two Noble Kinsmen and the career of John Waterson, asserting that the play's failure to sell in print and Waterson's failed attempt to sell plays in general resulted from his shop's reputation as being academic.
Speculates on how Shakespeare's audience may have responded to Shylock in Merchant of Venice through the historical account of Joachim Gaunse, a Jewish man who defended the Jewish rejection of Jesus in 1589. English summary, 182.
Contextualizes first tetralogy in England's early modern maritime culture by examining dramatized depictions of women's interactions with the sea. English summary, 68.
"Discusses a workshop conducted with postgraduate students at the University of Hyderabad in the central state of Andhra Pradesh, India, that developed into a production: Romeo, Juliet and the Security Guard." Describes how the workshop investigated the spatial theories of Doreen Massey and "isolates three moments from the project to illuminate Massey's ideas in relation to live performance and to demonstrate how the workshop evolved into a socially engaged site-based production." English summary, 383.
Reviews the case made by Ward E. Y. Elliot and Robert J. Valenza, directors of the Claremont Shakespeare Clinic, that A Lover's Complaint should not be attributed to Shakespeare. Argues that the poem should be included in Shakespeare's canon.
Argues that hierarchical relationships in which servitude is considered a kind of gift that does not necessarily deserve reward is present in the early modern period and is addressed in Timon of Athens. Explores characters in the play who hold subordinate positions yet challenge the notion that their service does not merit reward.