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Expands on Nietzsche's brief comments on tragedy in Shakespeare's works to explain Nietzsche's praise of Shakespeare as a philosopher. Portuguese summary, 47.

Stresses the importance of quoting and citations in literary works through an examination of Wilhelm Raabe's quotations of Shakespeare. Focuses on explicit parallels between Raabe's Kloster Lugau [Monestary Lugau] and Shakespeare's Hamlet as well as less direct allusions to Antony and Cleopatra in Raabe's Die Akten des Vogelsangs [The Acts of Vogelsang].

Through an exploration of James I's approach to religious conformity, argues that "Shakespeare [returns] to the religious roots of the English Reformation in plays that oscillate between the historical and the contemporary, fact and fiction, belief and faith."

Explores the significance of poetic allusions, puns, and references regarding Shakespeare's name that appear in Shakespeare's own poetry as well as other early modern literature and historical documents.

Examines Queen Elizabeth I's parliamentary speeches alongside Henry V in order to construct a template for early modern political speech. English summary 132.

Argues that using comic adaptations of Shakespeare's works can facilitate student understanding in the classroom by "reducing students' fear of contact." Notes that graphic representations of the plays restore an important visual element to the classroom and allow students to engage in performance criticism. Provides sample lessons for teaching Hamlet. English summary in Neumann, English and American Studies in German 2013 (q.v.).

"Explores the idea of masculine self-fashioning in Shakespeare's later drama through magical motifs, observing a developing ideology in the works of Shakespeare" that persists through his final plays.

Traces the relationship between the romance genre and seventeenth-century politics. Hypothesizes two types of romance, the diagnostic, which critiques the conflict between society and government, and the prescriptive, which offers strategies for combating political injustice. Devotes one chapter to Pericles and Winter's Tale, exploring Shakespeare's "politics of romance."

After tracing the "history of disputes over the physics of transubstantiation in order to dispute the historicity of skepticism that is typically applied to the treatment of the Eucharist in Hamlet," considers how "Hamlet's pondering of the nature of physical change also touches on alchemy, whose own theories of material change are inextricable from medieval and early modern theories of Eucharistic transformation." Concludes that "when Hamlet brackets the fate of human flesh with alchemy and transubstantiation, it exposes Hamlet's hopeless nostalgia for a medieval, preskeptical, Eucharistic-style unity of body and spirit as false nostalgia." Reply by Theodore Leinwand, 58-59.

Focusing on Johann Gottfried Herder's essay "Shakespeare," argues "that hermeneutics, as a modern, philosophical discipline, is solidly planted in the Enlightenment tradition in eighteenth-century German philosophy, in particular, its debate about the aesthetic challenges of Shakespearean drama." Reply by Paul A. Kottman.