Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Contributors viii
5. Introduction: Bound in a Nutshell – Shakespeare’s Vibrant Matter 1
6. PART I: DISCIPLINARY OBJECTS
7. 1. Beds, Handkerchiefs and Moving Objects in Othello 21
8. 2. The Collectible Ofelia: Object-Oriented Feminisms and the Un-Human Corpus of Q1’s Dispensaniac 37
9. 3. Bitcoin, Blockchains and the Bard 59
10. PART II: MEDIA OBJECTS
11. 4. ‘Were I human’: Beingness and the Postcolonial Object in Westworld’s Appropriation of The Tempest 85
12. 5. Finding Ludonarrative Harmony in the Limited Agency of Ophelia in Elsinore 108
13. 6. Sympathise with the Losers: Performing Intellectual Loserdom in Shakespearean Biopic 127
14. 7. Prosthetic Properties: The Materiality of Race and Gender in The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses 151
15. PART III : HUMAN OBJECTS
16. 8. ‘Intermission!’: Reading Race in the Objects of Key & Peele’s ‘Othello Tis My Shite’ 167
17. 9. Sight Unseen: Visualising Variability through Ontological Representations in Macbeth 192
18. 10. The Thing Itself: Performance and the Celebrity Text 210
19. 11. ‘The Promised End’: Shakespeare and Extinction 230
20. Index 248