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Considers claims that we have surviving songs from Cardenio. English summary, 333.
Considers intertextuality and globalization in 7 adaptations of Hamlet: Mamud Sabahi's Hamlet Narrates Hamlet, Semih Celenk's Hamlet in Colour in Turkish, Lyudmila S. Petrushevskaya's Hamlet, Act Null, Sulayman Al-Bassam's The Al-Hamlet Summit (published in The Arab Shakespeare Trilogy. q.v.), Atila Pesyani's Gajari Coffee, Mostafa Rahimi's Hamlet, and Akbar Radi's Hamlet with Season Salad.
Compares Persian (Iranian) translations of Hamlet by M. S. Adib-Soltani, M. Farzad, E. Fasih, and A. A. Hekmat. English summary, 164.
Examines Shakespeare's extensive exploitation of "the theatrical effectiveness of silence" in Tempest focusing on how "silences form part of a complex and self-conscious arrangement of acoustic effects unparalleled in early modern theatre."
Short play about Shakespeare ("Shakeshafte") meeting Edmund Campion, the Jesuit martyr.
Short story about H. G. Wells's time traveller coming to the 2012 Shakespeare festival in London during the Cultural Olympiad.
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Analyzes African and Asian adaptations of Tempest, Hamlet, Macbeth, and Romeo and Juliet from the 1960s to the 1990s. Concludes that "these adaptations form two major responses to the challenges surrounding the colonial/post-colonial period": a "'writing back' to the colonial power" and "an aesthetic response focusing on language and aiming to address the political and cultural landscape after the departure of the colonial power."
"Focusing on Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. . . describes the four tropes of chastity and their place in tragicomic experience." Argues that "the abrupt end of the cult of chastity and tragicomedy. . . must also be attributed to the efforts of pro-Parliamentary and Puritan writers who. . . sought to claim the tropes of chastity for their own rhetoric and cause." Published as Chastity in Early Stuart Literature and Culture (q.v.).
"Explores the recognition of suffering and vulnerability across species boundaries, highlighting the use of pity to define humanity against the rest of the animal kingdom, and focusing in particular on how these questions are handled" in Tempest. "Contends that the early modern English interest in pity indicates a central worry about vulnerability, but also. . . a belief in the necessity of recognising shared, human weakness."