List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Bound in a Nutshell: Shakespeare’s Vibrant Matter, Valerie M. Fazel and Louise Geddes; PART I: DISCIPLINARY OBJECTS; 1. Beds, Handkerchiefs, and Moving Objects in Othello, Sujata Iyengar; 2. The Collectible Ofelia:?Object-Oriented Feminisms and the Un-Human Corpus of Q1’s Dispensaniac, Molly Seremet; 3. Bitcoin, Blockchains, and the Bard, Robert Sawyer; PART II: MEDIA OBJECTS; 4. 'Were I human': Beingness and the Postcolonial Object in Westworld’s Appropriation of The Tempest, L. Monique Pittman, Vanessa I. Corredera, Kristin N. Denslow, Karl G. Bailey; 5. Finding Ludonarrative Harmony in the Limited Agency of Ophelia in Elsinore, Andrew Darr; 6. Sympathise with the Losers: Performing Intellectual Loserdom in Shakespearian Biopic, Anna Blackwell; 7. Prosthetic Properties: The Materiality of Race and Gender in The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses, Emily MacLeod; PART III: HUMAN OBJECTS; 8. ‘Intermission!’: Reading Race in the Objects of Key & Peele’s ‘Othello Tis My Shite’, Shanelle E. Kim; 9. Sight Unseen: Visualizing variability through ontological representations in Macbeth’, Valerie Clayman Pye and Cara Gargano; 10. The Thing Itself: Performance and the Celebrity Text, Louise Geddes; 11. 'The Promised End': Shakespeare and Extinction, Michael Lutz; Index.