IntroductionPart 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 ReadingIndex

[A] stimulating collection of essays … this volume not only consolidates the centrality of sensory scholarship, but also succeeds in offering new inroads, methodologies and concepts … Readers will find themselves returning to its stimulating and careful treatment of sensory studies.

Published in association with the London Shakespeare Centre at King’s College London, this series sets the future agenda for Shakespeare research and criticism. Each edited volume examines a Shakespearean intersection that has been chosen to encourage inventive reflections, suggestions for future directions for the field and critical engagements of a broad interdisciplinary nature.