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Demonstrates that, despite not having gone to university, Shakespeare maintained enduring interest in early modern academic drama. Explores reciprocal influence between professional and university drama in Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. Compares Macbeth with Matthew Gwinne’s Tres Sibyllae, written and performed to flatter King James  during visit to Oxford University in 1605.

Examines role of moral conscience in early modern literary culture, particuarly "bold conscience" which is uncompromising and refuses to be ignored. Offers Shakespeare's Hamlet and Henry VIII as case studies of bold conscience, arguing that in Hamlet "the conscience of the protagonist shifts from cowardice to politicized boldness."

Explores meanings of blank spaces in early modern printed books, noting blanks' significance for publication and act of reading. Discusses production of blank printed forms for early modern bureaucracy, serving as reliable income for printers, including printers of Shakespeare's First Folio and 1609 Sonnets to print such forms. Considers meanings of blank space within lunulae (or brackets) focusing on missing couplet that concludes Shakespeare’s Sonnet 126.

Explores how performance culture in early modern Europe helped establish blackness as racial category. Includes discussions of Othello, Titus Andronicus and Tempest.

Addresses the eco-feminist equation between female body and environment, discussion representation of exploitation of women in Iowa farm, setting of King Lear novelistic adaptation Thousand Acres (1991).

Examines Billy Morrissette's Scotland, PA, cinematic satire of fast food industry, in which fast food innovations such as french fries and drive through windows are equated with Macbeth's high tragedy. 

Includes two essays on Shakespeare.

Evokes theme of jealously in Othello through artist's book. Contains loose sheets of folded paper with increasingly dense geometric webbing as pages proceed, making it increasingly difficult to turn pages, "suggesting the web of lies being built and the jealousy taking over, until the last page is cut open, representing Othello taking his own life as well as his wife's, and setting himself free."

Novel. Modern-day Hamlet retelling.

Oxford: Oxford University Press; Washington D.C.: Folger Shakespeare Library. 

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