Introduction
Part I – Theorising Sensation
1. Framing Shakespeare's Senses; Bruce R. Smith (University of Southern California, USA)
2. Admiring the Nothing of It: Shakespeare and the Senseless; Steven Connor (Peterhouse, Cambridge, UK)
3. The Classical Tradition; Tanya Pollard (Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA)
Part II – The Early Modern Sensorium
4. ‘Sweet Above Compare’? Disputing about Taste in Venus and Adonis, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Othello, and Troilus and Cressida; Elizabeth L. Swann (Durham University, UK)
5. Hamlet's Visual Stagecraft and Early Modern Cultures of Sight; Simon Smith (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK)
6. The Smell of a King: Olfaction in King Lear; Holly Dugan (The George Washington University, USA)
7. ‘Amorous Pinches’: Keeping (In)tact in Antony and Cleopatra; Jennifer Edwards (Shakespeare's Globe, UK)
8. Hearing at the Surface in The Comedy of Errors; Katherine Hunt (The Queen's College, University of Oxford, UK)
Part III – Entangled Senses
9. Sense, Reason, and the Animal-Human Boundary in A Midsummer Night's Dream; Natalie K. Eschenbaum (University of Wisconsin – La Crosse, USA)
10. Sense and Community: Twelfth Night and early modern playgoing; Jackie Watson (Oxford, UK)
11. Simular Proof and Senseless Feeling: Synaesthetic Overload in Cymbeline; Darryl Chalk (University of Southern Queensland, Australia)
12. Pinching Caliban: Race, Husbandry, and the Working Body in The Tempest; Patricia Akhimie (Rutgers University – Newark, USA)
Part IV – Sensing Shakespeare
13. Shakespeare and the Seven Senses: Scenes from the Twenty-First-Century Stage; Erin Sullivan (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK)
14. Parted Eyes and Generation Gaps in Twenty-First-Century Perceptions of Screen Shakespeare; Diana E. Henderson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
15. The Senses and Material Texts; Adam Smyth (Balliol College, University of Oxford, UK)
Further Reading
Index