Ewbank, Inga-Stina. "Shakespeare's Liars." In British Academy Shakespeare Lectures 1980-89, pp. 85-116. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Examines Shakespeare's commentary on the simultaneous power of language to communicate and disguise intentions, to mislead, and to betray.

Howard, Jean E. "Cross-Dressing, the Theatre, and Gender Struggle in Early Modern England." Shakespeare Quarterly XXXIX, No. 4 (Winter 1988): 418-40.

Explores attempts in Renaissance England to bolster a disintegrating hierarchy of gender and a "normative social order," considering Shakespeare's comedies to be conservative approaches to gender and class issues.

Weimann, Robert. "Representation and Performance: The Uses of Authority in Shakespeare's Theater." PMLA CVII, No. 3 (May 1992): 497-510.

Discusses Shakespeare's simultaneous troubling of unitary power structures and of the authority of discourse within the context of Renaissance theatrics.