Evelyn Gajowski is Barrick Distinguished Scholar and Professor of English Emerita at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA. She has published four books: The Merry Wives of Windsor: New Critical Essays, with Phyllis Rackin (2015); Presentism, Gender, and Sexuality in Shakespeare (2009); Re-Visions of Shakespeare: Essays in Honor of Robert Ornstein (2004); and The Art of Loving: Female Subjectivity and Male Discursive Traditions in Shakespeare's Tragedies (1992). She serves as Series Editor of the Arden Shakespeare and Theory Series.

It elucidates the new meanings that come into focus in Shakespeare's texts when adopting different critical lenses

List of Illustrations and TablesNotes on ContributorsSeries Preface
AcknowledgementsList of Abbreviations

1.0 Introduction: Twenty-first-century Shakespeares, Evelyn Gajowski (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA)

PART ONE: Foundational Studies
1.1 Close Reading, Kent Cartwright (University of Maryland, College Park, USA)
1.2 Genre Studies, Michelle Dowd (University of Alabama, USA)
1.3 Character Studies, Michael Bristol (McGill University, Canada)

PART TWO: Challenges to Traditional Liberal Humanism
2.1 Marxist Studies, Christian Smith (Kingston University, UK)
2.2 New Historicist Studies, Hugh Grady (Arcadia University, USA)
2.3 Cultural Materialist Studies, Christopher Marlow (University of Lincoln, UK)
2.4 Feminist Studies, Jessica McCall (Delaware Valley University, USA)
2.5 Psychoanalytic Studies, Carolyn E. Brown (University of San Francisco, USA)

PART 3: Matters of Difference
3.1 Critical Race Studies, Arthur L. Little, Jr. (UCLA, USA)
3.2 Postcolonial Studies, Ruben Espinosa (University of Texas, El Paso, USA)
3.3 Queer Studies, Anthony Guy Patricia (Concord University, USA)

PART 4: Millennial Directions
4.1 Ecocritical Studies, Randall Martin (University of New Brunswick, Canada)
4.2 Computational Studies, Brett Greatley-Hirsch (University of Leeds, UK)
4.3 Spiritual Studies, Peter Atkinson (Worcester Cathedral, UK)
4.4 Presentist Studies, Miguel Ramalhete Gomes (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
4.5 Global Studies, Alexa Alice Joubin (George Washington University, USA)

PART 5: Twenty-first-century Directions
5.1 Disability Studies, Katherine Schaap Williams (NYU Abu Dhabi)
5.2 Ecofeminist Studies, Jennifer Munroe (University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA) and Rebecca Laroche (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA)
5.3 Posthumanist Studies, Karen Raber (University of Mississippi, USA)
5.4 Cognitive Ethology Studies, Craig Dionne (Eastern Michigan University, USA)

Appendices, Gary Lindeburg, Evelyn Gajowski, and Dorothy Vanderford (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA)
Timeline of Significant Developments
A-Z Glossary of Key Terms
Annotated Bibliography
Resources for Further Research

Index