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Takes a psychoanalytic approach to offer close readings of passages from Macbeth as a way to understand gender and Lady Macbeth. English summary.

Explores rhetorical and ritualistic violence in Shakespeare's Timon of Athens and the anonymous Timon (a student play from the Inns of Court). English summary, 85.

Examines "early modern theorizations of diplomacy" in relation to Antony and Cleopatra. Suggests that Shakespeare's knowledge of diplomacy comes from knowing Venetian ambassador Giovanni Carlo Scaramelli and English ambassador Henry Wotton.

"[E]xplores the representation of sympathy in Titus Andronicus." Argues that "the play employs the word sympathy in an innovative way that associates it with ideas of cognition, projection, and imagination . . . redefining sympathy as an imaginative activity rather than an occult phenomenon."

Speculates on "the influence of persisting medieval representations of Jews in early modern English culture" in Merchant of Venice. Argues that the Stratford misericord carving, "like the play, represents an archaic, antagonistic view of Jews that had gradually receded in other contemporary discourses."

Argues "that the treatment of . . . legal and theatrical principles of agency in Henry V, Twelfth Night, and . . . Measure for Measure . . . articulates a structural transformation of the status of the professional play and . . . a qualitative transformation of the terms on which these particular players presented the experience of theatre to their audiences, and of the political values associated with that experience."

Examines the use of evidence as a basis for knowledge in Hamlet. "[D]emonstrates not merely that Shakespeare was an empiricist himself but that he attempted to induce an empirical frame of mind in playgoers."

Uses the 1986 production of Two Noble Kinsmen at the Swan to suggest that Shakespeare's and Fletcher's collaboration was largely productive and not as fraught as previous work has suggested.

Evaluates major Shakespeare performances from the 2012 season in England and Wales.

Examines language and persuasion in Measure for Measure, arguing that, unlike several other of Shakespeare's plays, it stages several "rhetorical failures" that suggest persuasive language is often used in vain. French and English summaries.