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Evaluates "high tech" productions of Hamlet on stage and film. English summary, 233.
Analysis of Shakespearean plays (Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Richard III, Taming of the
Shrew, Midsummer’s Night Dream, and Tempest) with an emphasis on performance. Preface by Gabriela Haja.
Describes teaching Shakespeare at the University of Sarajevo during the covid-19 pandemic using filmed performances and a "Reading Theatre" culminative assignment. English summary, 288.
Considers Shakespeare's lexical innovations, particularly when it comes to coining words, while judiciously considering appropriate research methodology. Focuses on language in Hamlet.
Offers history of English theatre from 1572-1642, discussing playwrights, actors, companies, playhouses and stagecraft. Explores Shakespeare's use of sources and verse as well as translations of Shakespeare's plays. Compares Hamlet to Calderón's La vida es sueño.
Expands earlier argument (q.v.) about Hamlet's use of language, positioning play as "linguistic composition."
Explores rhetoric of Shakespeare's references to tombs and funeral monuments, drawing on examples from the first and second tetralogies, Timon of Athens, Antony and Cleopatra, and Winter's Tale. Argues that Henry V uses tomb and monument "symbolism not only to engage with his own past and the past of his country but also to envision a future when he endures eternally through his conquests and his monument." Suggests that early modern tombs are symbols of remembrance, revision, and future-building.
Counters traditional assertions that interpret Hamlet's "delay as problem," building on W. W. Greg's argument and countering Stanley Cavell's. Juxtaposes Hamlet with Lu Xun's The True Story of Ah Q, a postcolonial novella. Turning to Julius Caesar, suggests "that Brutus is lost within a mythologized history that creates a false dichotomy between republican virtue and tyrannical monarchy." Suggests that Timon of Athens "showcases how and why the realities of social life under the specific parameters of surplus ... exchange tend to restrict Timon's, and hence our, ability to imagine alternative futures."
Contrast's Timon's self-chosen exile and refusal to return with Prospero's unwilling exile. Taking a "Shakespearean anthropology" approach, delves into Timon's and Prospero's resentment, emotional reponses, and the power they exert in their respective exiles. Chapter one (Introduction) available open access: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003504276-1.
Theorizes value and values of Irish Shakespeare film adaptations, drawing on Vinny Murphy's H for Hamlet (q.v.), Mark O'Connor's King of the Travellers (a loose adaptation of Hamlet), and Tom Magill's Mickey B (an adaptation of Macbeth) and Prospero's Prisons (q.v. both), among others, as examples.