Introduction — Shakespeare ever after

Stefan Herbrechter

1-19

The science of the heart

Shakespeare, Kames and the eighteenth-century invention of the human

Neil Rhodes

23-40

"A passion so strange, outrageous, and so variable"

the invention of the inhuman in the Merchant of Venice

Stefan Herbrechter

41-57

Shakespeare and the character of sheep

Bruce Boehrer

58-76

Homeostasis in Shakespeare

Gabriel Egan

77-94

Care, scepticism and speaking in the plural

posthumanisms and humanisms in King Lear

Andy Mousley

97-113

Cyborg Coriolanus / monster body politic

Mareile Pfannebecker

114-132

Renaissance self-unfashioning

Shakespeare's late plays as exercises in unravelling the human

Rainer Emig

133-159

Surviving truth (measure for measure)

Mark Róbson

160-177

(Post-)heideggerian Hamlet

Laurent Milesi

181-193

Loam, moles and l'homme

reversible Hamlet

Marie-Dominique Garnier

194-212

"This?"

posthumanism and the graveyard scene in Hamlet

Ivan Callus

213-237

Post-posthumanist me — an illiterate reads Shakespeare

Adam M. Cohen

241-255