Suggesting that textual mediators have a positive rather than negative role, this book argues that any reader of Shakespeare, scholar, student, or general reader, approaches Shakespeare through edited versions that have a relationship to what Shakespeare may actually have intended and written.  Meer

An account of the value of experience and emotion in reading Shakespeare's sonnets and of the importance of reading poetry aloud. It discusses how reading the poems aloud can offer one of the best ways of fully participating in properly engaged reading.  Meer

A study revealing Shakespeare's career-long engagement with the sea and his frequent use of maritime imagery. It sets Shakespeare's sea-poetry against modern literary seascapes, including the vast Pacific of "Moby-Dick", the rocky coast of Charles Olson's "Maximus Poems", and the lyrical waters of the postcolonial "Caribbean".  Meer