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Analyzes genre, form, class, and evocation of sympathy in "A Lover's Complaint," arguing that the poem "challenges readers in remarkably direct ways, inviting us to examine our responses to poetry and grief."
Explicates poetic construction, heraldry, death, and ritual in "Phoenix and Turtle." Concludes that the poem "is premised on but transcends the competitiveness among funeral monuments and memorial verses for reputation, patronage, and survival in the face of mortality that made the Elizabeth period so productive of elegies and epitaphs."
Explores Shakespeare's influence on Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Coleridge, and Keats and asserts that these poets adapt Shakespeare primarily through allusions and exaggerating Shakespearean techniques and forms.
Argues that Shakespeare heavily influenced Victorian poets, particularly in relation to conceptualizing the theme of love and the lyric sequence and dramatic monologue genres.
Examines contemporary poets' responses to key scenes of Shakespeare's plays. Explores Romeo and Juliet's influence on John Ashbery's "Friar Laurence's Cell," Twelfth Night's influence on Elizabeth Bishop's "Twelfth Morning; or What You Will," and Measure for Measure on Roy Fischer's "Barnardine's Reply."
Explores the significance of thinking in Shakespeare's plays by examining key speeches of by a range of his characters. Observes that "none of Shakespeare's greatest characters speak the language of completed thought."
Explores the curricular and cultural influences of Shakespeare on Americans and how several poets and artists including Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, and Orson Welles engage with Shakespeare's vast influence. Concludes that, "in proud America, in mangl[ed]-by-starts-the-full-course-of-[its]-glory America" Shakespeare's text is "italicized, uncredited, manag[ed], thus far, and then mashed up--power cast in the role of ephemera--in the public domain."
Discusses critical reception of translations and adaptations of Venus and Adonis, Rape of Lucrece, and the Sonnets in Germany.
Examines Shakespeare's influence on Yves Bonnefoy's poetry as well as Bonnefoy's French translations of Shakespeare's corpus. Concludes that "Bonnefoy has recreated Shakespeare as a French poet, and in so doing, he expanded the canon of his own oeuvre, while adding an important chapter in the reception of Shakespeare in the French-speaking world."
Draws on Shakespeare to examine how audiences perceived belief in early modern English drama, asserting that belief existed in the experiential and mundane aspects of playgoing, including acoustics, distractions, and admission fees.