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Draws on Shakespearean examples to show how changing word meanings change what audiences perceive as funny.

Situates Shakespeare's writing in the tumultuous Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, following Christopher Haigh's Elizabeth I (1988). Publishes English translation (by Popa) of Marin Sorescu's poem "Shakespeare" in full.

Argues that in his portrayal of Joan of Arc and Talbot in 1 Henry VI, "Shakespeare mutilated history ... for the satisfaction of his hurt contemporaries, with the intention to encourage them, to boost their flattened egos, and to present their opponents, the French, in an as unfavorable a light as possible."

Describes Romanian discussion of Shakespeare in two nineteenth-century literary periodicals, "Foaie pen­tru minte, inimă şi literatură edited by the polyvalent intellectual George Bariţ, and Familia edited by the scholar Iosif Vulcan," as well as Visarion Roman's Amicul şcoalei and I. F. Negruţiu's Amicul familiei. Shows how interaction with Shakespeare's works (including the earliest Romanian translation of Merchant of Venice by Ioan Barc) was part of Romanian literary and intellectual culture. English summary, 35.

Briefly describes digital Shakespeare projects: Louis Marder's Shakespeare Data Bank (SDB), the American Society for Theatre Research bibliography, the electronic version of "the Riverside Shakespeare in the WordCruncher Bookshelf," and the digitized Shakespeare Quarterly bibliography (now the World Shakespeare Bibliography). Suggests that scholars of Eminescu could imitate these digital trajectories. English summary, 25.

Argues that Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Richard III, King Lear, Macbeth, and Tempest are "built upon a recurrent pattern of the process of self-(re)discovery with four functions : agent, mediator, catalyst, [and] patient." English summary, 13.

Considers romances (with a focus on Tempest, Winter's Tale, and Cymbeline) from anthropological perspective, exploring feudalism, magic, and colonialism. English summary, 3.

Argues that existing Romanian translations of Ben Jonson's "small Latin and less Greeke" "become grounds for ungainly criticism"; retranslates in order to better understand Jonson's meaning. English summary, 63.

Romanian-language translation of Shakespeare's sonnets.

Includes twelve essays on Shakespeare.