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Describes critical approaches of major Shakespearean scholars active around 1920-1940 in the United Kingdom, including I. A. Richards, William Empson, Arthur Quiller-Couch, F. R. Leavis, and Caroline Spurgeon. Shows how these scholars, the formation of named research chairs at the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge, and the Newboldt Report, led to Shakespeare's central place in British English departments and literary criticism. English summary, 15.

Describes attending British productions of Shakespeare's plays in 2021 as the theaters reopened after the pandemic closures, including Nel Crouch's Romeo and Juliet (Theatre Royal, York, q.v.) and Sean Holmes's Midsummer Night's Dream (Globe, London, q.v.). Describes these shows as celebratory and utopic. English summary, 51.

Argues that Ricard Abad's Filipino dance adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, Sintang Dalisay (q.v., choreography by Matthew Santamaria), transforms the play from "tragic to utopic" with its use of igal dance (a traditional dance of the "Sama-Badjau, a [Filipino] Muslim tribe") and its "appropriation of Asian myth." English summary, 33.

Contends that Sharat Katariya's10 ml Love (q.v.), an Indian film adaptation of Midsummer Night's Dream, presents two conflicting utopias with different political goals. Explores how 10 ml Love exposes the problems with caste supremacy. English summary, 87.

Suggests that American Shakespeare performances often position Shakespeare "as a prelapsarian poet, one who wrote before the institutionalization of colonial slavery," and so as a playwright whose works can be performed without reckoning with America's past. Shows how Shakespeare performances at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, New York City's Public Theatre, University of Texas's Shakespeare at Winedale, and the American Shakespeare Centre (Blackfriars) exist on or near sites of white supremacy.  English summary, 119.

Traces Seneca's influence on Shakespeare. English summary, 61.

Contends that Seneca's influence on Shakespeare is "largely invisible to us because our way of performing Shakespeare renders soliloquies meditative rather than declamatory, and strives for naturalism rather than stylization." Turns to Titus Andronicus and Hamlet to consider reflective and declamatory speeches. English summary, 43.

Suggests that the early English publication of Seneca His Tenne Tragedies (pr. Thomas Marsh, 1581) "may have paved the way" for the publication of Shakespeare's first folio. Shows how both publications "established the print legacies of their authors." English summary, 1.

Defends value of Word Adjacency Network (WAN) methods for stylometric determination of Shakespeare authorship, countering Rizvi (q.v.).

Applies topic modeling and network analysis to Timon of Athens, using hand-tagged topics on figures of speech. Finds "that the monetary economic form defines the social world of Athens, whereas Timon, in his first phase of the play, perceives the world through the economic form of barter." English summary, online.