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Title:: "'Taking a bond of Fate.' Macbeth: tragedia della profezia o tragedia della colpa? [Macbeth: Tragedy of Prophecy or Tragedy of Guilt?]"
Author:: Stanco, Michele.
Type:: Book Chapter
Year:: 2013

Publication Information:: Consiglio, Il futuro come intreccio. Tempo e profezia nella tradizione letteraria moderna e contemporanea [The Future as a Plot. Time and Prophecy in Modern and Contemporary Literary Tradition], 103–15.
Annotation:: Investigates uncanny coexistence of predestination and free will in Macbeth.

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Title:: "'Alle Dichter Wie Schulknaben': Büchner und Shakespeare. ["All poets like schoolboys": Büchner and Shakespeare"
Author:: Dedner, Burghard.
Type:: Book Chapter
Year:: 2013

Publication Information:: Aurnhammer, Heroen und Heroisierungen in der Renaissance, 113, 115, 117, 119, 121, 123.
Annotation:: Considers Büchner's exposure to Shakespeare and how it influenced the German dramatist.

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Title:: "'His bruised helmet and his bended sword.' Henry V, Essex und das Aufleben des Heldenkults im Jahr 1599 [Essex and the Revival of the Hero Cult in 1599]"
Author:: Clare, Janet.
Type:: Book Chapter
Year:: 2013

Publication Information:: Aurnhammer, Heroen und Heroisierungen in der Renaissance, 267–81.
Annotation:: Considers interpretation of Henry V in relation to Earl of Essex and particular historic moment of 1599.

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Title:: "Shakespear'sche Wortwelt. [Shakespeare's World of Words]"
Author:: Musil, Robert.
Type:: Book Chapter
Year:: 2013

Publication Information:: Aurnhammer, Heroen und Heroisierungen in der Renaissance, 121.
Annotation:: Reprint of a 1921 review of Danton's Death that links Büchner to Shakespeare (Prager Presse, 22 May 1921).

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Title:: "Shakespeares heldische Lukretia. Genre, Gender und Ekphrasis [Shakespeare's heroic Lucrece: Genre, Gender, and Ekphrasis]"
Author:: Berns, Ute.
Type:: Book Chapter
Year:: 2013

Publication Information:: Aurnhammer, Heroen und Heroisierungen in der Renaissance, 219–33.
Annotation:: Discusses gender and genre in Rape of Lucrece.

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Title:: "Witz und Waffe: Zu Büchners Umgang mit Wortern [Wit and Weapon: On Büchner's Wordplay"
Author:: Dedner, Burghard.
Type:: Book Chapter
Year:: 2013

Publication Information:: Aurnhammer, Heroen und Heroisierungen in der Renaissance, 505, 507, 509, 511, 513, 515, 517.
Annotation:: Notes the influence of Hamlet on Georg Büchner.

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Title:: "El texto frascado: epistemología de la lingüística de la escritura. [The Fractured Text: Epistemologies of Linguistics of Writing]"
Author:: Martínez-Dueñas Espejo, José Luis.
Type:: Book Chapter
Year:: 2013

Publication Information:: Martínez-Dueñas Espejo, The Failed Text: Literature and Failure, 9–32.
Annotation:: Uses Sonnet 18 as an example for exploring "failure" in literature and rhetoric. Attempts to locate where textual failures originate.

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Title:: "Shakespeare vom Zürchersee zur Riss [Shakespeare from the Zurich Sea on the Riss]"
Author:: Starnes, Thomas C..
Type:: Journal Article
Year:: 2013

Publication Information:: Wieland-Studien 8 (2013): 1–11.
Annotation:: Considers Wieland's role in changing the reception of Shakespeare across mainland Europe, particularly in Biberach an der Riss.

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Title:: "The 'Roman Failures' of Jonson's Sejanus and Catiline against the 'Roman Success' of William Shakespeare"
Author:: Brzozowska, Natalia.
Type:: Book Chapter
Year:: 2013

Publication Information:: Martínez-Dueñas Espejo, The Failed Text: Literature and Failure, 191–202.
Annotation:: Investigates why Ben Jonson's Roman plays were not well received by the same early modern audiences who enjoyed Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.

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Title:: "Monument Shakespeare and the World Stage: Reading Australian Shakespeare after 2000"
Author:: Flaherty, Kate.
Type:: Book Chapter
Year:: 2013

Publication Information:: Fotheringham, Catching Australian Theatre in the 2000s, 171–92.
Annotation:: "Examines the monumentality of Shakespeare in Australian culture and ways that twenty-first-century Australia both resists and fashions this monumentality." Focuses on Adam Cook's Hamlet and Benedict Andrews's The War of the Roses (q.v.). English summary, 171.

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