Shakespeare and the Urgency of Now

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxii

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2. Introduction

   • Cary DiPietro, Hugh Grady

   Pages 1-8

3. Presentism, Anachronism, and Titus Andronicus

   • Cary DiPietro, Hugh Grady

   Pages 9-37

4. The Presentist Threat to Editions of Shakespeare

   • Gabriel Egan

   Pages 38-59

5. Shakespeare Dwelling: Pericles and the Affordances of Action

   • Julia Reinhard Lupton

   Pages 60-82

6. Performing Place in The Tempest

   • Cary DiPietro

   Pages 83-102

7. Green Economics and the English Renaissance: From Capital to the Commons

   • Charles Whitney

   Pages 103-125

8. “Consuming means, soon preys upon itself”: Political Expedience and Environmental Degradation in Richard II

   • Lynne Bruckner

   Pages 126-147

9. “What light through yonder window speaks?”: The Nature Theater of Oklahoma Romeo and Juliet and the Cult(ure) of Shakespeare

   • W. B. Worthen

   Pages 148-171

10. Reification, Mourning, and the Aesthetic in Antony and Cleopatra and The Winter’s Tale

    • Hugh Grady

    Pages 172-187

11. The Hour is Unknown: Julius Caesar, et cetera

    • Mark Robson

    Pages 188-208

12. Back Matter

    Pages 209-212

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These essays address the intersections between Shakespeare, history and the present using a variety of new and established methodological approaches, from phenomenology and ecocriticism to the new economics and aesthetics.

• 21st century
• bibliography
• dance
• Ecocriticism
• edition
• English
• environment
• essay
• history
• history of literature
• nature
• performance
• phenomenology
• Renaissance
• William Shakespeare
• British and Irish Literature

“In this volume Cary DiPietro and Hugh Grady have assembled a rich array of scholars to display the relevance of Shakespeare through sustained presentist readings of his work. … Shakespeare and the Urgency of Now will be of interest to scholars working on contemporary Shakespeares.” (Rachel Willie, Modern Language Review, Vol. 111 (3), July, 2016)

• University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada

  Cary DiPietro

• Arcadia University, USA

  Hugh Grady

Lynn Bruckner, Chatham University, USA Gabriel Egan, De Montfort University, UK Terence Hawkes, Cardiff University, UK Julia Reinhard Lupton, University of California, USA Mark Robson, University of Nottingham, UK Charles Whitney, University of Nevada, USA W. B. Worthen, Barnard College, Columbia University, USA

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