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Describes Essex's involvement with Ireland and literary depictions of such. Argues that Shakespeare's plays include "figures available to be read as policy indicators for Essex" and that Shakespeare saw Essex as "a means to effect regime change." Examines Essex figures in Richard II, As You Like It, Henry V, and Henry VIII.

Evaluates two Shakespeare film adaptations that offer postmodern approaches to femininity: Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet and Sally Wainwright's ShakespeaRE-Told, The Taming of the Shrew (both q.v.)). English summary, 64.

Explores "the relationship between those actors available to the King's Men and the plays that were produced in Shakespeare's late career." Further "considers the importance of the relative ages of actors in the King's men," and "what it might have meant to be an 'old' actor on the Jacobean stage."

Argues that "Shakespeare's Rape of Lucrece defers from complicity with Tarquin's brutality and the political response it incites by resisting destiny and contesting the medium of preservation." Identifies poem as "unique model of authorial agency, one unseen although emblematized in Orpheus." Examines how Lucrece's title, Dedication, Argument, and narrative poem illustrates "estranged power of cancellation."

Explores ideological, religious, political, social, and literary impact of Shakespeare's tragedies in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England. Relates these "realities" "to Bourdieu's concepts of field and habitus to demonstrate the dependence of the refraction of the Aristotelian concepts and the shape of tragic vision on the actual experience of the individual and of society." Presents tragedy as relevant and important in its continuing afterlife in twenty-first century. English summary, 26.

Performs comparative study of King Lear and Margaret Atwood's novel Cat's Eye. Argues that Shakespeare seeks to redeem father figure, while Atwood extends grace to daughter.

Discusses neglected area of Shakespearean scholarship, Shakespeare on television, and how his unimposing presence demonstrates Bard's pervasive role in British culture and beyond. Contends that study of Shakespeare on small screen should not merely be considered through adaptation theory, but should be appreciated as respected medium that offers new opportunities for exploring Shakespeare.

Argues that Shakespeare's highly regarded position in the United Kingdom's national curriculum has been "poorly evidenced" and "under interrogated." Contends that Shakespeare's superior place in curriculum is due to "moral and educational agenda which is imposed on these children, and extends beyond their classrooms to pastimes and entertainment."

In light of Hans Robert Jauss's essay Literary History as a Challenge to Literary Theory, demonstrates different phases of audience and critical responses to Hamlet, evaluating "specific responses of each phase and the objectives they bring in perceiving the play and at the same time, accounting for the gaps they have left behind." English summary, 210.