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Argues Shakespeare "in popular culture is increasingly becoming the domain of the adolescent girl." Employs field of girls' studies to analyze modern adaptations and appropriations of Shakespeare's plays and consider cultural discourses including abstinence-only sex education, rape culture, coming out, and more. 

Explores reception and afterlives of three medieval myths of British nationhood, including legends of Brutus, Albina, and Scota. Considers influence of myths on Shakespeare's writing, including in Sonnets, King Lear, and history plays. 

Italian-English parallel-text edition of Merchant of Venice. Includes introduction on archetypes, Shylock's character, and other topics, including theater, religion, and economy.

Discusses "Stratfordian epistemology" related to authorship controversy; explores Shakespeareans' "ethics of belief." Considers such epistemology in efforts to understand overarching Stratfordian arguments.

Refutes idea that Edward de Vere "owed any substantial element of his thought to the Hermeticists." Seeks to prove contention by rejecting claim that Shakespeare's late plays were written after de Vere's death, correcting seeming misdating of Love's Labor's Lost. 

Explores Shakespeare and Edward de Vere's reading habits to speculate about what book Hamlet reads onstage. Considers works by William Lyly and Ovid as possible texts. 

Investigates Shakespeare's insight into concept of truth in All's Well That Ends Well. Contextualizes Shakespeare's understanding of truth within larger phenomenon of "human truths." Considers what counts as truth in authorship controversy.

Reads themes and tropes of Shakespeare's sonnets in relation to biography of Edward de Vere. Contends "generations of scholars" have been "led astray by the Stratford biography," leading them to unanswered questions about sonnets and Shakespearean biography.

Discusses use of digital technologies, like artificial intelligence and machine learning, in authorship debate. Describes individual project involving text-mining analytics to determine Shakespeare's true identity.

Considers how Michael Drayton's friendship poem addressed to Henry Reynolds might reveal Drayton's "doctrines of numerical form and esoteric purpose." Asserts such doctrines can posisbly illuminate Drayton's testimony about Shakespeare in authorship controversy.