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Analyzes how Arthur Quiller-Couch's Historical Tales from Shakespeare and Thomas Carter's Shakespeare's Stories of the English Kings, two early twentieth-century adaptions of Shakespeare's history plays, represent Britain's national identity. Suggests that these two texts were used in British schools to teach both Shakespeare and British history.

Analyzes the problematic ways the British National Party has made use of Shakespearean texts to support their agenda. Also discusses the teaching of Shakespeare, arguing for the importance of always re-evaluating how he has been socially and politically constructed.

In a reading of As You Like It's Rosalind and Audrey alongside Tempest's Ferdinand and Caliban, argues that, while the men in these two plays display greater cognitive complexity than women, women can overcome the limitations of mind and body through the use of disguises. English summary, 1.

After surveying the silent or passive role of the literary figure Sycorax in a number of texts including Tempest, argues that Suniti Namjoshi's portrayal of Sycorax in the collection of poems Sycorax (q.v.) breaks this pattern of silence and passivity by de-colonizing the island. English summary, 126.

By examining the trope of the moving statue in Winter's Tale, argues that Shakespeare uses moments of near-rebellion in the play to serve as an example to kings of how to avoid causing political rebellion. English summary, 52.

Argues that topical evidence linking Falstaff (in Merry Wives of Windsor and 1 and 2 Henry IV) to "Elizabeth's 'minions' and 'men of good government'" transforms him into "a vehicle for thinking about the sexual and generational transgressions of the late Elizabethan court," specifically those of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.

Drawing on Ernst Kantorowicz's The King's Two Bodies, analyzes how Shakespeare portrays the conflicting and dualistic aspects of a king's divine and mortal nature through the image of the cracked mirror in Richard II. English summary, 32.

Using Paul Virilio's analysis of accelerated time and culture as a focus, examines the function and workings of time, especially the chaotic movement of real time, in Macbeth.

Argues that the protagonist Pai in Raja Rao's novel The Cat and Shakespeare, although in many ways mirroring the protagonist and text of Hamlet, acts to deny the power-driven values inherent in Shakespeare's culture and his own, values concerning colonization, authoritarian nationalism, class roles, and species and gender. English summary, 164.

Suggests teaching and learning about Shakespeare through collaboration between multiple agents, arguing for a classroom study of Shakespeare apart from the nineteenth century legacy of Shakespeare and didacticism.