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Contends Timon of Athens is autobiographical for life of Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford. Reads plot and characters of Timon of Athens to assert similarities between de Vere and characters of Timon and Alcibiades.
Discusses playwright Robert Greene's characterization of Shakespeare as "an upstart crow." Examines additional allusion of Shakespeare with crow and bird imagery through association with character Insulso Sogliardo in Ben Jonson's Every Man Out of His Humour.
Discusses epigram, "To Our English Terence," by John Davies. Considers how line "companion for a king" does not simply refer to Shakespeare as member of King's Men acting troupe, but rather, how line can be read as referring to Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, proposed as author of Shakespeare's works.
Challenges both Shakespeareans and Oxfordians who respectively argue publication of First Folio fully proved Shakespeare's authorship or was designed to conceal Earl of Oxford's authorship. Asserts instead that First Folio was produced in order to reveal Shakespeare's authorship through "deliberate ambiguity."
Discusses preliminaries printed in Shakespeare's First Folio. Contends prefatory materials, like title page engraving of Shakespeare, is "the genesis of the Shakespeare authorship controversy."
Explores philosophical questions about language from last 150 years from a perspective of cognitive science, ethics, literature, philosophy of mind and political philosophy. Explores relationship between Hamlet and Shakespeare as author on basis of theory of reference by Saul Kripke and Hilary Putnam. English summary, online.
Explores phenomenon of misanthropy in literature across genres from late Renaissance through eighteenth century. Considers origins of misanthropy through figure of Timon in Timon of Athens.
Assesses Shakespearean influence on Irish Literary Theatre (1899-1901), cofounded by W.B. Yeats, Augusta Gregory, Edward Martyn, and George Moore. Investigates how Yeats's memories of Shakespeare's history plays were "both inscribed in, and erased from, Yeats's Irish theatre," particularly in Yeats's Diarmuid and Grania (1901).
Drawing on anthopologist Victor Turner's theories, discusses significance of liminality in Twelfth Night, to argue play dramatizes “a community brought to the brink of liminality by Viola’s violent entry into its realm.” English summary, online.
Examines adaptations of Tempest by Maurice Bouchor. Considers 1888 adaptation which incorporated music by Ernest Chausson and 1901 adaptation which incorporated music by Jules de Brayer. Explores text set to music, biases of translation, and elements of style.