significance in both Jessica's and Shylock's eventual conversions to Christianity. Adelman analyzes the significance of Jessica's leave and deceit of her father in the context of Jewish cultural history. She approaches the work as she becomes increasingly informed about her religious traditions by attending the Kehilla Community Synagogue in Piedmont, CA. Awards and recognitions Fulbright Fellowship (1962) Woodrow Wilson Fellowship (1964) Explicator Prize Honorable Mention for "The Common Liar: An Essay on 'Antony and Cleopatra'" Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies in London (1976–1977) Guggenheim Fellowship (1982) UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award (1986) Charles Mills Gayley Lecturer at UC Berkeley (1990) Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship to the Bellagio Study Center (1998) Bogliasco Foundation fellowship to the Liguria Study Center (2003) UC Berkeley Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentorship of Graduate Student Instructors (2006) Berkeley Citation (2007) Bibliography The Common Liar - An Essay on Antony and Cleopatra (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973), 235 pp. Creation and the Place of the Poet in Paradise Lost, in The Author in His Work: Essays on a Problem in Criticism, ed Louis L. Martz and Aubrey Williams (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978), pp. 51–69. Twentieth Century Interpretations of King Lear: A Collection of Critical Essays (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1978), 134 pp. 'Anger's My Meat: Feeding, Dependency and Aggression in Coriolanus, in Representing Shakespeare - New Psychoanalytic Essays, ed. Murray M. Schwartz and Coppelia Kahn (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980), pp. 75–91. Male Bonding in Shakespeare's Comedies, in Shakespeare's Rough Magic : Renaissance Essays in Honor of CL. Barber, ed. Peter Erickson and Coppelia Kahn (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1985), pp. 73–103. 'This Is and Is Not Cressid': The Characterization of Cressida, in The Mother Tongue: Essays in Feminist Psychoanalytic Interpretation, ed. Shirley Nelson Gamer, Claire Kahane, and Madelon Sprengnether (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985), pp. 119–41. 'Born of Woman': Fantasies of Maternal Power in Macbeth, in Cannibals, Witches, and Divorce: Estranging the Renaissance (Selected Papers from the English Institute, 1985, New Series no. 11), ed Majorie Garber (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987), pp. 90–121. Suffocating Mothers: Fantasies of Maternal Origin in Shakespeare, Hamlet to The Tempest (New York: Routledge, 1992), 339 pp. lago's Alter Ego: Race as Projection in Othello, Shakespeare Quarterly 48 (1997): 125-44. Making Defect Perfection: Shakespeare and the One-Sex Model, Enacting Gender of the English Renaissance Stage, ed. Viviana Comensoli and Anne Russell (Urbana-