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Examines a line from Julius Caesar containing the term "et cetera" ("Shall Rome, et cetera" [2.1.5]), considering the questions which this phrase sparks in light of the greater work.
Examines seven "frames" for understanding Shakespeare's relationship to the Middle Ages; then looks closely at the seventh frame called "historical phenomenology" (identifying looking at properties of perceptions within Shakespeare's plays).
Discusses Shakespeare's later perceptions of the Middle Ages by questioning why in Pericles he and George Wilkins diverged so greatly from their sources and why they chose John Gower as the chorus.
Examines Shakespeare's relationship to the medieval by discussing how the printing press developed as an important mediating influence on early modern literature, focusing especially on the mediations of William Caxton's translation of History of Troy and mediations of medieval sources of Coriolanus.
Draws on Shakespeare to assert that anatomical blazons negotiate social, cultural, and literary identity in early modern English literature, offering a "critique of the supposedly fixed social, gendered, and psychic positions" blasonneurs produce.] $.64 blazon; identity
Begins with discussion of the conventional "anachronistic reading of the status of language in Shakespeare" (as illustrated by Kent Cartwright, "Language, Magic, the Dromios, and The Comedy of Errors" [q.v.]); addresses John Dryden's contradictory attitude to Shakespeare's language; then argues that understanding one's concepts of both language in general and Shakespeare's language furthers understanding of the relationship of the Middle Ages, Shakespeare's early modern England, and the present.
Examines how Shakespeare's understanding of personification is an inheritance of the medieval past and how he uses personification as a mechanism for shaping characters and understandings of gender.
Using Rape of Lucrece, explores how this Ovidian poem "challenged recoveries of exemplars and paradigms to disperse sites of authority" and attempted to construct an alternative epistemology during the political crisis of the last fifteen years of Elizabeth I's reign.
Draws on Edward III, 1 Henry VI, 1 and 2 Henry IV, Henry V, and Henry VIII in exploring the values of chivalry and pragmatism. Finds that Shakespeare presents the triumph of chivalric pragmatism through the successes and failures of the characters in the play.
Examines the theatrical code of conduct in Shakespeare's plays that sometimes contradicts courtly norms and suggests an "alternate or lateral behavioral code."