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Includes an examination of how the animate statue in early modern romance is presented as "an emblem of the potential spiritually transformative power of objects" in Pericles and Winter's Tale.
Draws on Shakespeare in exploring how satire as a genre and the issue of authorship in early modern England are intertwined, argues early modern authorial distinctions were newly defined in the development of satiric literature.
In comparing the use of violence by early modern English dramatists to a contemporary group of 1990s English playwrights known as the "In-Yer-Face" school, draws on Hamlet and Titus Andronicus.
Draws on Shakespeare to advance a new literary history of mock heroic in early modern English literature, showing how satire of the military "transforms heroic literature from within." Focuses on features that critique the logic of the epic, such as judgmental narrators, lower-class soliloquy, and soldiers who criticize commanders.
Draws on Shakespeare's use of the garden and nature settings to explore the influence of the Henrican Reformation in England. Finds that nature scenes in Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Richard II, Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Othello, King Lear, Winter's Tale, and Tempest show the beginnings of the individual pursuit of a personal relationship with God.
Analyzes the role of rhetoric and modal verbs in Shakespeare's comedies to argue that his use of language provides agency and subjectivity to his comic characters, instead of representing them solely as types. Argues that the characters' use of debate, word play, and rhetorical devices actively creates the comic world.
Applies Algirdas Julien Greimas's "actantial model" in a semiotic analysis of Hamlet. English and Turkish summaries, 58.
In introducing a new model for teaching introductory literature courses which examines a central text through looking at its influences, includes an example of a T. S Elliot The Waste Land "Influences" course which examines Tempest as one of its sources.
Includes a case study of a student's improved ability to read closely and respond to King Lear in essay form as part of a qualitative assessment of a pedagogical approach wherein students demonstrate close reading through their writing.
Includes an examination of Hamlet as one of the most prominent examples of how the supernatural activates theatrical machinery, thus provoking dramatic action, as part of a discussion on the visual aspects of theatrical medium, in particular stage design and scenography in modern theatre.