These essays address the intersections between Shakespeare, history and the present using a variety of new and established methodological approaches, from phenomenology and ecocriticism to the new economics and aesthetics.

Lynn Bruckner, Chatham University, USA Gabriel Egan, De Montfort University, UK Terence Hawkes, Cardiff University, UK Julia Reinhard Lupton, University of California, USA Mark Robson, University of Nottingham, UK Charles Whitney, University of Nevada, USA W. B. Worthen, Barnard College, Columbia University, USA

Acknowledgements Forward: A Bigger Splash; Terence Hawkes Introduction 1. Presentism, Anachronism and Titus Andronicus; Cary DiPietro and Hugh Grady 2. The Presentist Threat to Editions of Shakespeare; Gabriel Egan 3 Shakespeare Dwelling: Pericles and the Affordances of Action; Julia Reinhard Lupton 4. Performing Place in The Tempest; Cary DiPietro 5. Green Economics and the English Renaissance: from Capital to the Commons; Charles Whitney 6. 'Consuming means, soon preys upon itself': Political Expedience and Environmental Degradation in Richard II; Lynne Bruckner 7. 'What light through yonder window speaks?': Populism, Pedagogy, and Performance in The Nature Theater of Oklahoma Romeo and Juliet; W. B. Worthen 8. Reification, Mourning, and the Aesthetic in Antony and Cleopatra and The Winter's Tale; Hugh Grady 9. The Hour is Unknown: Julius Caesar, et cetera; Mark Robson Bibliography Index