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Explicates Arabian allegories in "The Phoenix and the Turtle," considering Shakespeare's poem in relation to Farud ud-din Attar's Sufi poem Mantiq-al-Tayr (The Conference of the Birds). English summary, 347.
Evaluates editorial treatment of race in Sonnets, with a focus on glosses. Suggests that "the speaker is often aware that he constructs the colour of his mistress depending on his own desires." English summary, 346.
Explores rhetorical comparisons in "A Lover's Complaint," showing how the poem "pays particularly close attention to imprecise resemblances between people and natural or elemental elements." English summary, 345.
Offers Picasso's "fifty-eight varions on Velázquez's Las Meninas" as analogues to the multiple publications of Shakespeare's sonnets and their adaptations, suggesting that these works emphasize transformation. English summary, 347.
Assesses modern poems that incorporate elements and quotations from Shakespeare's sonnets, suggesting that they often "use sameness and differences in the version they create in order to complicate the readers' sense of the relationship between the earlier and later poems," noting that many emphasize the arts and impact of adaptation and writing. English summary, 345-46.
Suggests that "A Lover's Complaint" critiques the antiquarian desire to accumulate and reenact the past" using poetic techniques and "rhetorical motifs." English summary, 346.
Explores how Emily St. John Mandel's novel Station Eleven and its television adaptation (q.v. both) envision a future where "the value and relevance of literature" (exemplified by Shakespeare and Shakespearean adaptations) are "increased, not diminished, through processes and artistic practices of desacrilization."
Presents "preventive tyrannicide" as an early modern political theory upheld by "Monarchomachs" and reflected in Brutus's logic for killing Caesar.
Suggests that Shakespeare structured Measure for Measure to invite audience to analyze the play with their conscience. Considers role of confession, power, justice, and penance in the play. Describes "the Duke's theater of conscience as a positive change from his former leniency."
Analyzes four productions of Richard II from 2007-2016 (q.v. all), focusing on how the Queen is staged, considering her silences, her position on stage literally and figuratively, and her situatedness in "the play's geographies of power and displacement."