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Takes a psychoanalytic approach to Shakespeare's tragic heroes.
Shows how Russian adaptations of Hamlet in film and television reflect Soviet and post-Soviet ideas.
Explores Shakespeare's influence on Alexander Blok's theory of theatre and Blok's interpretations of Shakespeare's tragic heroes.
While examining Shakespeare's six signatures and comparing them to signatures of the playwright's contemporaries, aims to assess if people viewed Shakespeare "as a professional writer."
By giving information of ten eyewitnesses who are associated with Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon, aims to prove the playwright's connection with "the man bearing the same name in Stratford-upon-Avon."
By examining Mr. Shakespeare's "Last Will and Testament," argues that the documents tells nothing about the playwright. Contends that the mind "that gave life to the greatest literary works in the English language is not to be found in this document."
Raises a possibility that if Shakespeare from Stratford were the author, he "would have been known to many groups of people." By offering an evidence of people who were in silence without elegy "at the time of Mr. Shakespeare's death," maintains that the playwright Shakespeare and Mr. Shakespeare "were two different men."
While dealing with Stratfordians' idea that Shakespeare's plays might have been related to "first-hand knowledge of Italy," maintains that the playwright has been "bounded and compromised by the internal politics of his profession."
By offering analyses of Shakespeare's "knowledge of the law" and comparing his uses of law-related issues in his plays with "the legal expertise" of Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe, and John Webster, argues that Shakespeare thinks "like a lawyer."
Demonstrates how John Fletcher's The Sea Voyage (1622) engages in dialogue with Tempest (1611), focusing on European piracy where Shakespeare is silent and "transferring the characteristics of barbarity and savagery, attributed to the non-Western 'other' in The Tempest, to the privateers." Argues that The Sea Voyage, "by valorizing labor and connecting it with temperance [. . .] exposes the unreality of Gonzalo's plantation on the one hand, and the exploitative nature of Prospero's governance on the other" and "interrogates further the western right to impose cultural norms on the natives that Prospero and the Europeans arrogate to themselves." English summary, 291.