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"Examines the disruptive, even skeptical, potential of female silence," contrasting Isabella's "religious and political uncertainty" in Measure for Measure with Ben Jonson's silenced Celia in Volpone, whose silence establishes her as "virtuous paragon" and positions Jonson as moral authority during the Poets' War. English summary, online.

"Suggests that practitioners should abridge and refashion Richard III and not hesitate to incorporate material from Shakespeare’s other plays, especially 3 Henry VI," following example of Colley Cibber's 1700 revision and other historical precedents. English summary, 369.

Argues that David Greig's Dunsinane (q.v.) emphasizes Macbeth's continued cultural relevance with its focus on borders. Considers Dunsinane and Macbeth in relation to Scottish independence movements.

Argues that "through the figure of Cressida, Shakespeare metatheatrically dramatizes the vulnerability and exploitation of Elizabethan boy actors caught between warring theaters" during the poets' war. English summary, online.

Drawing on adaptation theory and hip-hop Shakespeare, describes creation of The Society for the Destitute Presents Titus Bouffonius by Colleen Murphy and Stephen Drover, "a play that integrates Shakespearean text and new writing with bouffon (the mid-twentieth-century school of French clowning) to relate the plot of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus." 

"Draws from recent atmospheric research ... to posit the air as archive." Considers air in relation to ghosts, sight, and the "atmospheric interruption" of speech and sound in Hamlet and Macbeth. "Probe[s] the environmental phenomenality of catharsis." English summary, 251.

Argues that DruidShakesepare (dir. Hynes, q.v.) "used cross-gender performance as a corporeal exploration of traditions, histories, and iconographies in Irish Shakespeare performance," focusing on casting of Derbhle Crotty as Henry IV and Aisling O’Sullivan as Prince Hal/Henry V.

"Explore[s] how Shakespearean TikTokers use the platform to create a queer utopia, and how this utopia constructs Twelfth Night as a queer touchstone." Points to rise in online Shakespeare performance, including ShakesTok, during covid-19 pandemic. Reminds scholars to "remain attuned" to social media Shakespeare, which "provides a playground to remix the dramaturgy of Shakespeare, as well as the culturally relevant readings which emerge from this playground."

"Examines the vocabulary of likeness and replication in Shakespeare’s disease-ridden Denmark, which aligns with early modern theories of contagion from Paracelsus and Girolamo Fracastoro." Considers "sympathetic contagion," incest, and disease in body natural and body politic in Hamlet. English summary, 323.

Suggests it is not only Hamlet who has a fascination with conscience, but also Claudius. Describes Claudius's conscience as unrepetentant and Hamlet's as vengeful, using soliloquys as window into their interiorities. Sees conscience as "a political tool."  English summary, 301.