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"Examine[s] issues of gender and sexual identity in Shakespeare's drama by looking at how one particular woman reader of the seventeenth century, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, perceived femininity in [Shakespeare's] plays." "Look[s] at what can be read as a commentary on the ambivalent ending of Measure for Measure in her own Convent of Pleasure (1668) to try and offer a contextualized reflection on notions of gender expectations, and issues of reception." English summary, 257.

Gives a history of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, founded by Angus Bowmer in 1935, from its origins to the present day.

Uses Sally Wainwright's adaptation of Taming of the Shrew to explore how Shakespeare is re-told. English summary, 267.

Drawing on Hamlet and Henry VIII, posits "that the theater created by Shakespeare and his fellows fostered a new kind of critical public space that advanced the social and political agency of private people" and "shows how the right of the private person to public recognition emerged in a context of performative play.

"Describes many . . . Shakespearean characters suffering from varied neurological disorders, including Parkinsonism, epilepsy, sleeping disturbances, dementia, headache, prion disease, and paralyses." English summary, 3.

Reads Duke Vincentio's prison speech in Measure for Measure through a Lucretian lens, arguing that Shakespeare may have been influenced by the Epicurean thought in Michel de Montaigne's essay "That to Philosophise Is to Learn How to Die," which contains quotations by the Epicurean, Lucretius. English and French summaries. English and French summaries.

Explores cultural and historical events of twenty-first-century Europe, including "massive migration, pan-European Neo-Nazism, a new and active Moslem self-awareness, the resurgence of Russian Nationalism, and a severe financial crisis," as a new context for Hamlet, which accordingly becomes "a trans-national, multi-cultural, 'glocalized' site for positioning both play and protagonist between quickly changing geo-political developments and local events." Discusses the play and the character of Hamlet in terms of this "new signification, political and theatrical" as well as "Hamlet's search for his 'part' in the new millennium Europe." English summary, 283.

Discusses Igor Stravinsky's Music to Hear (a setting of Sonnet 8), reading it as a response to Sonnets 8 and 128. Translated by Antonella Piazza. English summary, 337.

"Considers alternative readings of Lady Macbeth's femininity and amenorrhea codified by two historical bodies: the male body of Shakespeare's original actor and the pregnant body of Sarah Siddons in 1785 and 1794." Argues that "a barren Lady Macbeth denies the possibility of dynasty through amenorrhea; a pregnant Lady Macbeth's amenorrhea reinforces her fertility." English summary, 353.

Argues that postmodern film adaptations of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, including Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet (q.v.), Lloyd Kaufman's Tromeo and Juliet (q.v.), and Fumitoshi Oizaki's Romeo x Juliet (2007), "plac[e] Romeo and Juliet into a world that continually references itself through an abundance of signs" in order to "ask how true, authentic love can be experienced." English summary, 305.