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Argues that "the spider in the cup" in Winter's Tale "can be used to recontextualize the carnivalesque" by drawing together "cognitive studies and the ecology of the passions."
Shows how metallurgy, mining, and alchemy in Shakespeare's play have an "economic end point: money." Describes how the importance of mining (and money) in Johannesburg inflects South African Shakespeare scholarship.
Considers "how Shakespeare contructed utopian spaces" in Love's Labor's Lost. Describes how women "breach" the enclosure of "men's utopia" and explores the functions of women's voices and echoes.
Offer a history of the hunt, in contrast to agropastoral systems. Explicates how Shakespeare treats the hunt in his works with particular emphasis on Titus Andronicus and Julius Caesar.
Situates Shakespeare's descriptions of Caliban in relation to early modern understandings of skin diseases.
Reads Taming of the Shrew in the animal fable tradition, noting its "sustained engagement with animals as a way of reading plot and character."
Describes how Shakespeare compares Richard III and Caliban to "the mola," that is, "formless human mass" and "monstrous lumps of flesh."
Considers "transcorporeality" and how humans exist in in Nature, focusing the "paradoxical relationship between contamination and containment" in Tempest.
Explicates Iago's garden speech. Argues that relying on early modern botanical reference works is not enough to support our understanding of the meanings of plants in early modern literature.
Asserts that "it is hard to overestimate the prevalence" of the "belief in the efficacy of plants" in Shakespeare's time. Points to Shakespeare's use of plant imagery in multiple plays, with a focus on multiple meanings of plants in Midsummer Night's Dream.