Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Shakespeare after 9/11 / Matthew Biberman
  • "This thing of darkness" (prose poem) / Tom Sleigh
  • Shakespeare and terror / Graham Holderness and Bryan Loughrey
  • Extraordinary renditions: toward an agency of place / Linda Charnes
  • "Wicked meaning in a lawful deed": Shakespeare on the obscenity of power / Slavoj Zizek
  • Explosive signifiers: Sulayman al-Bassam's post 9/11 odyssey / Margaret Litvin
  • Shakespeare and the dialectic of enlightenment: a presentist perspective / Hugh Grady
  • Harry after VV / Scott Newstock and Harry Berger Jr
  • Shakespeare after 5/11 / Jonathan Gil Harris
  • Whither brutus?: rethinking Julius Caesar in the new American century / Scott Maisano
  • "Senseless ilium" / Christopher Pye
  • Shakespeare-for the long haul / Elizabeth Jane Bellamy
  • "And here's thy hand": Titus Andronicus in a time of terror / James Kuzner
  • Contemplating suicide: Shakespeare after the September 11 attacks / Bryan Reynolds
  • Shakespeare's "bare (ruined) choirs" / Richard Burt
  • The great awakening (poem) / Robert Polito
  • "All are punished": staging Romeo and Juliet in a post 9/11 world 231 / Stephen M. Davies
  • On 9/11 as a concept for Shakespeare productions / Cynthia White
  • Thoughts on Shakespeare after 9/11 / Terry Burgler
  • Beyond humanism and postmodernism: a Hamlet for the 21st century / Walter A. Davies
  • "This rough magic" / Sidney Berger
  • Guernica unveiled (poem) / Graham Holderness
  • "Preposterous violence": Shakespeare after 9/11, 9/11 after Shakespeare / Ben Saunders.