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Examines how Hamlet's portrayal of brotherly betrayal challenges and parallels motifs of Senecan tragedy.
Compares how Othello and the ancient Greek novel Callirhoe engage with themes of theatricality and betrayal.
Reconsiders the nature of dramatic adaptations by examining Anna Petrzelková's 2011 Romeo and Juliet, performed at Pilsen's International Festival Theatre, with particular attention to her allusions to Czech culture. English summary, 279.
Compares contemporary novels based on Shakespearean texts to Victorian appropriations of Hamlet and Merchant of Venice meant specifically for young female readers. Argues that the stylistic approaches of these Victorian adaptions still mediate how females culturally relate to Shakespeare.
Analyzes the ways in which Mirjam Pressler emphasizes Jewish subtexts in her German adaption of Merchant of Venice, Shylocks Tochter (q.v.).
Compares Tad Williams's adaptation of Tempest in Caliban's Hour (q.v.) to Susan Cooper's adaptation of Midsummer Night's Dream in King of Shadows (q.v.).
Argues that there are subversive undertones in director Yuri Kulakov's 1994 episode Julius Caesar from Animated Tales from Shakespeare (q.v.), a series which abridged Shakespearean plays into cartoon segments for young audiences.
Demonstrates how John Marsden's novel Hamlet and Andy Griffiths's children's play Just Macbeth! (both q.v.) reaffirm Shakespeare's canonical status in response to Australian debates from 1996-2007 on Shakespeare's place in the Australian educational system.
Examines four comic book adaptions of Macbeth--including Marcia William's Macbeth (q.v.), Classical Comics' Macbeth (by John McDonald), Adam Sexton, Eve Grandt, and Candice Chow's Manga Macbeth (q.v.), and Richard Appignanesi's Manga Shakespeare Macbeth--to demonstrate how comics can effectively or unsuccessfully mediate the play's inherent violence for young readers.
Demonstrates how the darker aspects of fairy tales serve as sources in All's Well that Ends Well, and uses this approach to the play to gain insight to its "'unfortunate' reputation." English summary, 141.