Posthumanist Shakespeares

Stefan Herbrechter, Ivan Callus (eds)

Palgrave Macmillan - Basingstoke

2012

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.