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Considers "new and better ways to work productively with nothingness, with not just lost plays but gaps in evidence and knowledge."
Analyzes portrayal of royalty and kingship in King John, Richard II, King Lear, Macbeth, and Hamlet. Considers gendered elements of power, the role of the fool, sovereignty, and religion.
Argues that Hamlet chooses his feigned madness, giving him agency other characters in the play do not have. English summary, 212.
Describes how Clive Sinclair adapts Merchant of Venice in different ways in the various short stories collected in Shylock Must Die (q.v.). Polish and Russian summaries, 1.
Compares anti-Semitic portrayals of Barabas, Shylock, and the anonymous Jews in Chaucer's Prioress's Tale. Polish and Russian summaries, 102-3.
Describes how '90s and early aughts teen Shakespeare movies—notaby, O, Ten Things I Hate About You, She's the Man, and Romeo + Juliet (q.v. all)—help teenagers "better understand Shakespeare, themselves, and each other." English summary, 30.
Describes changing worldviews from Elizabethan to Jacobean with an emphasis on politics and historical contexts.
Argues that in Indigo (q.v.), Marina Warner presents female characters that are absent from or minimized in Shakespeare's Tempest to give voice to women and marginalized people, while also emphasizing "the importance of oral history." English summary, 87.
Short story.
Considers "deception and mystification" of Shakespeare's biography in Upstart Crow and Shakespeare in Love (q.v. both). English summary, 323.