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Compares promotional posters for film adaptations of Taming of the Shrew, looking for visual evidence of how Katherina is presented as tamed or not in different cultural moments. English summary, 8.

Considers Macbeth in the context of James I's rule and the Gunpowder plot, arguing that "Paradoxically, while Macbeth does provide James with legitimacy, at the same time it calls into question the grounds of that legitimacy." English summary, 393; Serbian summary, 405 (with author's name as Edvard Đorđević).

Considers how Shakespeare's plays have been performed in Lithuania in the twentieth century. Argues that "the general turn towards Shakespeare by many Lithuanian theatre artists... reflects and connects various phenomena of major social changes and new beginnings: the creation of an independent state and a professional national theatre in the interwar period; the creation of a more modern theatre and a more relaxed society during the thaw of the 1960s in the wake of the Stalinist regime and its terror; the transformation of the role of theatre in society in the 1990s following the restoration of the country’s independence; the challenges brought about by the new century and the changing generations of artists." Lithuanian summary, 152; English summary, 161.

Reads characters in Shakespeare's plays as foils for each other, representing Machiavellian figures: politicians and commoners. English summary, 63.

Argues that early modern Croatian playwright Marin Držić and Shakespeare were both influenced by Erasmus's In Praise of Folly. Suggests that Držić's and Shakespeare's philosophies are often simplified when they are called upon as national icons. English summary, 290.

Analyzes Turkish Manga Tempest in terms of "transposition," "intersemiotic translation," "interlingual translation," and "foreignization"/"domestication." Turkish summary, 190; English summary, 199.

Contends that "Shakespeare’s 'shadowy forests' ... owe more to the threatening woods of European folk tales and medieval romance than to the pastoral 'Green Worlds' of classical and Renaissance poetry." Suggests that individual stage posts can represent single trees or the Cross.

Shows "how nature's allegiances" in Macbeth "could not unequivocally support state power." Offers ecocritical reading that positions Macbeth in relation to "James's paternal authority" and the gunpowder plot.

Includes multiple plays about Shakespeare, including Shakespeariana and Stratfordo sodininkas [The Shakespeare Gardener].

Individuates a reference to the biblical Song of Songs, and specially to the metaphor of the enclosed garden, in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis (lines 229-240), particularly the passage in which Venus turns her body into a much eroticized park and invites him to be a deer and feed on it.