Posthumanist Shakespeares

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Introduction — Shakespeare ever after

   1. Introduction — Shakespeare ever after

      • Stefan Herbrechter

      Pages 1-19

3. Reading Shakespeare ‘after’ Humanism

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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

      • Neil Rhodes

      Pages 23-40

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

      • Stefan Herbrechter

      Pages 41-57

   4. Shakespeare and the Character of Sheep

      • Bruce Boehrer

      Pages 58-76

   5. Homeostasis in Shakespeare

      • Gabriel Egan

      Pages 77-94

4. ‘Posthumanist’ Readings

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95

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   2. Care, Scepticism and Speaking in the Plural: Posthumanisms and Humanisms in King Lear

      • Andy Mousley

      Pages 97-113

   3. Cyborg Coriolanus / Monster Body Politic

      • Mareile Pfannebecker

      Pages 114-132

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

      • Rainer Emig

      Pages 133-159

   5. Surviving Truth (Measure for Measure)

      • Mark Robson

      Pages 160-177

5. Hamlet, ‘Posthumanist’?

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179

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   2. (Post-)Heideggerian Hamlet

      • Laurent Milesi

      Pages 181-193

   3. Loam, Moles and l’homme: Reversible Hamlet

      • Marie-Dominique Garnier

      Pages 194-212

   4. ‘This?’: Posthumanism and the Graveyard Scene in Hamlet

      • Ivan Callus

      Pages 213-237

6. Afterword

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 239-239

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   2. Post-Posthumanist Me — An Illiterate Reads Shakespeare

      • Adam Max Cohen, David B. King

      Pages 241-255

7. Back Matter

   Pages 256-261

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Shakespeare scholars and cultural theorists critically investigate the relationship between early modern culture and contemporary political and technological changes concerning the idea of the 'human.' The volume covers the tragedies King Lear and Hamlet in particular, but also provides posthumanist readings of other Shakespearean plays.

• Hamlet
• King Lear
• Renaissance
• William Shakespeare
• British and Irish Literature

• Coventry University, UK

  Stefan Herbrechter

• University of Malta, Malta

  Ivan Callus

BRUCE BOEHRER Editor of A Cultural History of Animals in The Renaissance (2007) and co-editor of the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies ADAM MAX COHEN Former Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA GABRIEL EGAN Co-editor of the journals Theatre Notebook and Shakespeare RAINER EMIG Chair of English Literature and Culture at Leibniz University in Hanover, Germany MARIE-DOMINIQUE GARNIER Professor of English Literature and Gender studies at the University of Paris 8-Vincennes, France DAVID B. KING Co-author of the screenplay Halsted and taught English Literature and Creative Writing at Colorado State University, USA LAURENT MILESI Reader in 20th-Century English/American Literature and Critical Theory at Cardiff University, UK ANDY MOUSLEY Reader in Critical Theory and Renaissance Literature at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK MAREILE PFANNEBECKER PhD graduate from the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff University, UK NEIL RHODES Professor of English Literature and Cultural History at the University of St. Andrews, UK MARK ROBSON Teacher at the University of Nottingham, UK

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