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Develops an association between practice-based research (PBR) and Shakespeare studies to articulate a theoretical justification for using performance as the principal research tool in a laboratory approach to the study of Shakespeare.
Focuses on the transformation of social character types "from medieval literature to early modern drama," arguing that stock characterization in Shakespeare's history plays helped connect medieval practices, such as privileging community and family, to early modern audiences. Focuses on Philip the Bastard (King John, Mistress Quickly (1 and 2 Henry IV), Cardinal Beauford (1 and 2 Henry VI), and Queen Isabel (Richard II).
Arguing that Peter Alexander and Philip Williams's claim that an exemplar of the 1609 Quarto text of Troilus and Cressida was used to print the 1623 Folio text of the play must be wrong because their conclusion cannot be reconciled to the textual evidence, argues for a nonextant Quarto as the copytext for the First Folio version.
Describes Reading Shakespeare's Early Modern Readers, an online database co-edited by Jean-Christophe Mayer and Margaret Vasileiou, focusing on early modern and eighteenth-century readers' responses to Shakespeare.
Introduces and describes DEx: A Database of Dramatic Extracts, and how it catalogs early modern manuscripts that contain extracts from Renaissance plays, including those by Shakespeare.
Describes the World Shakespeare Project (WSP), a project co-directed by Cavanagh and Kevin Quarmby that is "crafting a model for global . . . higher education through an interconnected series of live, interactive collaborations that cross international, institutional, disciplinary, sociocultural, religious, linguistic, economic, and other disparate academic divides."
Focuses on Shakespeare's prose involving "questions and social references," contrasting prose passages in Two Gentlemen of Verona, Twelfth Night, and Hamlet "with a verse passage from Henry VIII, which features the language of affirmative assurance that prose is less inclined to perform." Concludes "that Shakespearean prose is an instrument often used to dramatize explicitly the instability within social interactions." English summary, 47.
By analyzing "The multitudinous seas incarnadine/Making the green one red" (Macbeth, 2.2.59-60), an account of a near-shipwreck in Edward Barlow's diary, "and the moment when the hero washes ashore in [Daniel Defoe's] Robinson Crusoe," addresses a way to "think about the human encounter with nonhuman nature" and explores the myriad meanings of "oceanic green." English summary, 66.
Argues that Sa'dallah Wannus's play Tuqus al-Isharat wa-l-Tahawwulat's "novelty and aesthetic power derive from aspects of Shakespeare, principally Measure for Measure, and from motifs, lexicon and ritual theatricality derived from Sufism as aesthetic form and religious practice." English summary, 124.
Chronicles his reading of the Shakespeare corpus as it appears in Stephen Greenblatt's 1997 edition of The Norton Shakespeare.