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Comments on the repetition, inversion, and metaphor in two moments of Hamlet: the play-within-a play in 3.2, and the graveyard scene in 5.1.
Focuses on the "conjunction of memorial modes" in early modern and modern stagings of Richard III (q.v.) and Henry VII as a way to make the past present. Considers Hamlet as it relates to Richard III.
Uses Tempest and Winter's Tale to investigate the "overlaying of memorial meaning in theatrical performance" and show how it affects the stage-picture in early modern theater.
Analyzes the function of evil in King Lear, specifically its manifestation in the words and acts of Lear, Goneril, Regan, and Edmund. Considers dealings between various forms of evil.
"Argue[s] that The Tempest reflects a deep and characteristically Shakespearean anxiety about what might be called the colonial contract--a term meant to encompass the various ways in which explorers and colonists compulsively treated 'new world' lands and populations as available resources to be acquired, exploited, and sold at market."
Reads Shylock's cruelty in Merchant of Venice in terms of cuckoldry, arguing that "we can understand Shylock's desire to exact his bond as a hyperbolic, psychosexual manifestation wherein he paradoxically battles and embodies anti-usury polemics." Finds that he "displaces the unease he feels about Jessica's paternity and the Venetian community's hypocritical denigration of his business by conflating financial regeneration and biological reproduction."
Explores the true nature and role of forgiveness in W. H. Auden's prose reflections on Tempest. English summary, 414.
Stemming from Shakespearean textual criticism, argues that bringing material characteristics of early texts into the literary interpretive process can help produce the dramatic meaning of a text. Focuses on Sir Thomas More.
Focuses on the references to memory and forgetfulness in Shakespeare in order to examine their functioning on stage as a rhetorical mainspring, dramaturgical tactic and an authorial tool to question the "perenniality of literary creation." French and English summaries, 1.
Focuses on the importance of memory in Shakespeare's first tetralogy, investigating memory as a significant source with which to "consolidate a commitment to political change." French and English summaries, 11.