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Examines the role that the rude mechanicals play in both subverting and restoring social norms through their performance in Midsummer Night's Dream.
"Examine[s] the role that King Lear plays as a paradigm for the discourse of the Sublime in British Romanticism."
Compares Aimé Césaire's Une Tempête (q.v.) with Shakespeare's Tempest, arguing that Césaire's play inspires "social change and liberation" while Shakespeare's play disturbs with "classical colonial ambition." English summary, 6.
Assesses notion of queenship in its relationship and antagonism to kingship and royalty in Shakespeare's historical tetralogies and Henry VIII. Focuses on motifs of virtue, legitimacy, agency, and "early modern religious and political issues concerning gender relations." English summary, 251.
Based on results of interviewing 35 theater professionals in Canada, Finland and United Kingdom, assesses reasons behind Shakespeare's role as cultural icon in twenty-first century. English summary, 14.
Compares Shakespeare's depiction of women as powerful and influential with Yoruba culture's similar view to demonstrate "relationship between literature and religion, how drama can effectively be utilized as a cultural material of universal appeal and how beliefs separated by time and clime interconnect." English summary, 18.
Explores Al Pacino's directing choices, "fragmentary editing," and meta-theatrical approach to Shakespearean film adaptation, Looking for Richard (1996). Chinese and English summaries, 190-91.
Traces history of phrase "problem plays" in Western scholarship attributed to certain Shakespeare plays, following term through waves of naturalism, social realism, modernism, and postmodernism. English and Chinese summaries, 85-86.
Examines differences between Boccaccio's Teseida, Chaucer's Knight's Tale, Dryden's Fables Ancient and Modern, and Shakespeare's Two Noble Kinsmen in representing Arcite's death by startled horse. Focuses primarily on extension of this scene in Shakespeare beyond Chaucer's wordplay or Dryden's instructional tone.
Asserts that immersive theater project Sleep No More, based on Shakespeare's Macbeth "provides a fascinating forum for exploring new trends in the use of sound in both live performance and audiovisual media" through an analysis of how sound effects and music help shape perceptions of this unconventional performance space. Compares the effect of sound on immersion in Sleep No More with immersive practices in videogame design.