characters to construct meaningful lives . In “ How Shakespeare Perpetuates the Tudor Myth ,” Reza Parchizadeh examines the role of the “ residual ” in Shakespeare ’ s construction and perpetuation of an identification of the Tudor era as a “ Golden Age .”
Kathy Merlock Jackson ’ s “ Two of a Kind : Love and Romance in The Patty Duke Show ” considers the seemingly opposed identities afforded to 1960s American girls by the Patty Duke Show ’ s juxtaposition of the “ identical cousins .” And , in his “ From Brecht to Beck ,” Adam Cohen illuminates the co-dependent and fluid nature of the identities of both professional wrestlers and their audiences .
In “ Two Roads Diverged ,” author Gavin Davies shows that video games can reconstruct and thus re-identify the slasher genre first popularized through film . And finally , Mina Zare Karizi posits that feminine identity in Shelly ’ s Frankenstein emerges out of gaps and lacunae in masculine discourse in her “ Representations of Women through Absences in Frankenstein .”
Gina M . Sully , Associate Editor
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