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Argues for an affinity between Geoffrey Chaucer's Merchant's Tale and Midsummer Night's Dream in the representation of faery.
Arguing that waterscapes in early modern drama--swamps, monsoons, glaciers, rivers--form sites where humans interact with nature, contends that Twelfth Night and Tempest promote ethical ways to develop current relationships between nonhumans and humans. Revised and published as For All Waters (q.v.).
Focusing on the connection between Coriolanus's antitheatrical zeal and his ultra-masculine identity in Coriolanus, argues that the play undermines its gynophobic foundation.
Examines how Shakespeare's work resonates for Klingon characters in the Star Trek universe not only as reading material and theatrical performance but also as the framework for episodes and films.
Demonstrates how useful a stylistic approach can be in teaching undergraduate Shakespeare classes.
Studies the influences of Shakespeare (especially Hamlet) on Sang Lee.
Examines the fundamental principles of film adaptation and investigates the main strategy of Orson Welles' film adaptations of Macbeth and Othello.
Examining the geopolitics of King Lear in terms of territory, land, and earth, argues that the features shed light on Shakespeare's opinions on the politics of geography. Also examines differences between the Quarto and Folio editions of King Lear in order to establish their different portrayals of the identity of Cordelia's invading force. English summary, 147. In a response ("Toward Tyranny: Geopolitics and Genre, a Response to Stuart Elden," 166-74), Fionnuala O'Neill seeks to redress the "depoliticization" of King Lear by putting it into conversation with Shakespeare's history plays instead of his tragedies; contends that Richard II and King Lear respond anxiously to the "reappropriation of the language of the corpus mysticum into the service of absolute monarchy."
In examining the scene in Antony and Cleopatra where Enobarbus wills himself to die from a broken heart, discusses some medieval and early modern beliefs in the power of sorrow to bring about literal bodily harm.
Discusses how Shakespeare creates a type of poetic justice in Macbeth which negates a false individualism and instead affirms a form of individualism based on ethics. English and Chinese summaries, 94.