Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Introduction. What the Future Holds: Shakespearean Futures, Now and Then 1
4. I. Futures in the Balance: The Ends of Shakespearean Drama
5. 1. Earth Dies Burning: Futurity and the Unfinished in Timon of Athens 19
6. 2. Marlowe’s Queer Futures: Edward and Richard, the Second 33
7. 3. Racial Futurity in King Lear 58
8. 4. Fair Hazards: Risk, Race, Justice, and the Future of The Merchant of Venice 73
9. 5. Shakespeare Studies and the Indigenous Turn 98
10. II. Arts of Looking Ahead: Catastrophe, Contingency, Prophecy
11. 6. Four Shakespearean Catastrophes 119
12. 7. Recovering Contingency: Possible Outcomes for Julius Caesar 134
13. 8. Prophecy Without Futurity: Joan Puzel and the Social Life of Foresight in 1 Henry VI 150
14. III. Remembrance of Things to Come: Remediating Shakespeares
15. 9. Shakespeare’s Viral Futurities: Memory and the Poetics of Infection 169
16. 10. Shakespeare’s Tragic Capital: The Future in the Past in Edward Bond’s Bingo 183
17. 11. After words, words, words: Hamlet on the Border 199
18. Notes 207
19. Contributors 267
20. Index 273
21. Acknowledgments 289