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Offers a list of professional Shakespeare productions in British Isles for 2011.
Argues that Shakespeare and Fletcher's lost play The History of Cardenio exists and was a source for Lewis Theobald's The Double Falsehood.
Compares Calderón's La Devoción de la Cruz with Romeo and Juliet, Lear, and Othello with particular attention to themes and character development.
Examines the function of metamorphosis in the interaction between language and performative dynamics in Venus and Adonis. Italian summary.
Compares secular and religious understandings of mortality and Sonnet 146 and Donne's Holy Sonnet X with Michelangelo's Madrigale 118. Italian summary.
"[A]rgues that the tonal dissonance created by Antonio's melancholy in The Merchant of Venice is an integral component of its comic progression and, in doing so, construes the play as representative of Shakespeare's idiosyncratic genre of comedy."
Compares representations of Hamlet in Hamlet and Howard Barker's Gertrude (Le Cri). French and English summaries.
Interrogates body (public and private) images in Coriolanus to argue that Shakespeare uses bodies critique seemingly harmonious social structures and to highlight paradoxes between public and private. French summary.
Examines the concept of surveillance in Measure for Measure, asserting that the Duke serves as a vehicle of surveillance in the play and that the elements of surveillance demonstrate Shakespeare's questioning of the theatre's right to imitate reality. French and English summaries.
Examines discourses of madness and deformity in Richard II. Argues that "the dominant values and ideals of the Ricardian age, the historical narratives from which the play draws, and the anti-theatrical polemics of Shakespeare's time are viewed askance?so as to shed light on the contradictions and irrationalities inherent in them." French summary.