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Argues that although Shakespeare offers a solution to the two large crises of Macbeth--gender roles and disruption of monarchy--the solution is complicated by the play's elimination of the female.
Analyzes formal and structural principles of Shakespearean language in Rape of Lucrece with an emphasis on rhetorical strategies.
"Analyzes the reception of William Shakespeare's works in Brazil via narrative translations and adaptations" of Charles and Mary Lamb. Compares different Portuguese translations of an excerpt from Lamb and Lamb's Romeo and Juliet.
Draws on Shakespeare to discusses "the dramatic and aesthetic role of textile props" (especially curtains) in plays from the Elizabethan to Jacoben era.
Reads Queen Isabel in Richard II not as a composite of Richard's wives, but historically as a little girl. Contents that reading Isabelle de France as a child "instensif[ies] our sympathy for her plight" and "recognize[s] her status as a compelling French counterpoint to the play's overarching English nationalist teleology."
Examines drafts of Schlegel's 1779 German translation of Merchant of Venice 4.2.12 to illustrate difficulty of matching cadence and meter when translating. Argues that translation is a process that entails considerable revisions.
Discusses how Melville re-writes elements of Hamlet in Moby Dick. Contends that Melville "pay[s] homage to Shakespeare" and that his version is "not at all a retelling of Hamlet but a re-writing and a mingling of two 'textual identities.'"
Examines Gravelot's illustration of Garrick acting in Hamlet 3.4 in Rousseau's La Nouvelle Héloïse. Suggests that Plover is not a passive translator of Rousseau's vision, but provided his own interpretive mark by selecting Hamlet as the basis for illustration. French summary, 494.
Interrogates ideas of "completeness" in Timon of Athens in comparison with Restoration adaptations, including Thomas Shadwell's The History of Timon of Athens, the Man-Hater, James Love's Timon of Athens, and Richard Cumberland's Timon of Athens, a Tragedy. Demonstrates that these "playwrights relied on an ethical device--the addition of a morally pure female character--in an attempt to fill holes in their understanding of Timon's character, correct his problematic behavior, and ease the divide between the play's two halves."
Uses Shylock in Merchant of Venice "to analyze the transdisciplinary . . . character between law and literature." Suggests that Shylock suffers injustices and recommends that studiers of law incorporate literary texts as well as law texts for a more well-rounded understanding of law. Portuguese and English summaries, 269.