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.

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