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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.

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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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