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Draws on Hamlet to examine death and immortality in commercial and non-commercial apocalyptic films, arguing that the latter serve as critiques of capitalism. Lithuanian summary, 145; English summary, 158.
Examines the response to beauty in Winter's Tale and the relationship between Protestant grace, Neoplatonism, and the Levinasian "ethical," arguing that the play does not resolve with a romance, but with a "suspended repetitive movement of violence." English summary, 52.
Analyzes postcolonial aspects of Tempest, arguing that Caliban was inspired by the myth of Lincolnshire fen spirits, that the play speaks to land reclamation projects and the displacement of locals, and that a lost play about a fen-dweller named St. Guthlac served as possible inspiration for the play. English summary, 21.
Questions the links between King Lear and Jean-Luc Godard's film (q.v.), arguing that the latter serves as a meditation on loss and fragmentation that speaks to "the problematics of posterity" which pervades the play, and that it provides an opportunity to reflect on cultural and personal memory. English summary, 76.
Analyzes Hal's "appropriation of the mobile energies of the nation's lower orders" and reformation through internal devotion in 1 and 2 Henry IV, arguing that these connections to itinerancy, vagabondage, servitude, and the introspective, Protestant journey provide new avenues for the self and the state to be progressive, productive, and distinctively English. English summary, 1.
Examines the relationship between Shakespeare's history plays, their historical contexts, Brechtian and neo-Brechtian productions of the plays in the 1960s, and Benedict Andrews' War of the Roses (q.v.), arguing that the Brechtian stagings invite materialist readings of the politics and violence while Andrews' relate sovereign authority to the suffering and abject body. English summary, 91.
Draws on Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet to discuss how Ciaran Carson rewrites Shakespeare in his poems to question the stability of history and art and to create his own poetic ethics and aesthetics. English and French summaries.
Considers Angelo in Measure for Measure as a paradoxical tragic hero, asserting that he realizes desire is demonic through his impulse to rape Isabella and thus "sin[s] in loving virtue." Argues the same is true for Isabella and Duke Vincentio. English summary.
Considers the use of rhetoric in Measure for Measure, arguing that Shakespeare's use of simile creates a hefty, didactic structure to speech, more like daily reality than the condensed speed of metaphor. English and French summaries, online. Expanded and published in Shakespeare and the Rhetoric of Elocution (q.v.).
Reflects on teaching Romeo and Juliet at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.