Posthumanist Shakespeares

1. Introduction — Shakespeare ever after
Stefan Herbrechter

Part I. Reading Shakespeare ‘after’ Humanism

2. The Science of the Heart: Shakespeare, Kames and the Eighteenth-Century Invention of the Human
Neil Rhodes

3. ‘a passion so strange, outrageous, and so variable’: The Invention of the Inhuman in The Merchant of Venice
Stefan Herbrechter

4. Shakespeare and the Character of Sheep
Bruce Boehrer

5. Homeostasis in Shakespeare
Gabriel Egan

Part II. ‘Posthumanist’ Readings

6. Care, Scepticism and Speaking in the Plural: Posthumanisms and Humanisms in King Lear
Andy Mousley

7. Cyborg Coriolanus / Monster Body Politic
Mareile Pfannebecker

8. Renaissance Self-Unfashioning: Shakespeare’s Late Plays as Exercises in Unravelling the Human
Rainer Emig

9. Surviving Truth (Measure for Measure)
Mark Robson

Part III. Hamlet, ‘Posthumanist’?

10. (Post-)Heideggerian Hamlet
Laurent Milesi

11. Loam, Moles and l’homme: Reversible Hamlet
Marie-Dominique Garnier

12. ‘This?’: Posthumanism and the Graveyard Scene in Hamlet
Ivan Callus

13. Post-Posthumanist Me — An Illiterate Reads Shakespeare
Adam Max Cohen, David B. King

Nyckelord: Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Literary Theory, British and Irish Literature