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Utilizes Michel Focault's "notion of power relations at work in . . . society" to analyzes how power relations in Richard III and Macbeth "can reveal versatile experiences." English summary, 57.
"Examines the differing approaches of a selection of film-makers to the vexed question of making Shakespeare's words work in the cinema" and "asks how Shakespearean a film is when the words are not Shakespeare's own." English summary, 321.
Reads George Sand's L'Homme de neige as a Hamlet adaptation, arguing that the "fairy-tale rewriting of the tragedy" "enables the author to give expression to her high regard for popular art and to justify her anti-naturalistic literary program." English summary, 333.
"Analyzes the relationship between comedy and tragedy through a rereading of the gravedigger scene in Hamlet" by "first, discussing the relationship between comedy and materialism, and, second, examining the mutuality between comedy and tragedy." "Discusses how comedy links with the material, class struggle, and death and castration, arguing that the comedic quality of the gravedigger is inseparable from his materialism, suggesting that if tragedy is about the spiritual, comedy would be about the interruption of the spiritual by the material, and that these two qualities coincide in the grinning skull." English summary, 155.
Discusses the interaction between theater and new media through Marianne Elliott's All's Well That Ends Well (q.v.). "Use[s] the global mediatised sporting event as a lens through which to consider the phenomenon of NT Live and the trend towards cinematic broadcasting of theatrical performance" and "propose[s] a new conceptual framework that can be termed 'Super Bowl Dramaturgy' whereby the qualities of the 'live' performance are subsumed within a dramaturgical logic that parallels the branding, staging and viewing experiences of a major mediatised sporting event like the American Super Bowl."
Argues that in Merchant of Venice "Shakespeare explores darker currents of lust, avarice, retribution, jealousy, sexual deceit, cruelty, religious conflict, and financial, moral, and emotional bankruptcy" through Portia and Jessica. Explains that "Portia, with her limitless wealth, is revealed as the play's controlling character [whose] actions and attitudes are ironically rejected by those of Jessica, who embodies the play's moral perplexity." English summary, 115.
Attempts to determine the interrelationship between politics and religion in the English Reformation movement represented in Richard II, 1 and 2 Henry IV, and Henry V in order to gain a better understanding of Shakespeare's interpretation of English history. In Korean.
Examines how Shakespeare represents the history of England in 1, 2, and 3 Henry VI and Richard III.
Examines the sociology of the subversiveness in Hamlet,King Lear, Othello, and Macbeth.
Interview with François Ost about Victor Hugo's views on Shakespeare and the similarities between their lives and works. Also discusses Ost's Shakespeare: La comédie de la loi (q.v.).