Posthumanist Shakespeares

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Shakespeare Ever After; S.Herbrechter PART I: READING SHAKESPEARE 'AFTER' HUMANISM The Science of the Heart: Shakespeare, Kames and the Eighteenth-Century Invention of the Human; N.Rhodes 'A passion so strange, outrageous, and so variable:' The Invention of the Inhuman in The Merchant of Venice; S.Herbrechter Shakespeare and the Character of Sheep; B.Boehrer Homeostasis in Shakespeare; G.Egan PART II: 'POSTHUMANIST' READINGS Care, Scepticism, Speaking in the Plural: Posthumanisms and Humanisms in King Lear; A.Mousley Cyborg Coriolanus / Monster Body Politic; M.Pfannebecker Renaissance Self-Unfashioning: Shakespeare's Late Plays as Exercises in Unravelling the Human; R.Emig Surviving Truth (Measure for Measure); M.Robson PART III: HAMLET, 'POSTHUMANIST' (Post-)Heideggerian Hamlet; L.Milesi Loam, Moles, and l'homme: Reversible Hamlet; M-D.Garnier 'This'?': Posthumanism and the Graveyard Scene in Hamlet; I.Callus Afterword: Post-Posthumanist Me: An Illiterate Reads Shakespeare; A.M.Cohen & D.B.King Index