INTRODUCTION: Troping the Early Modern, Re-Troping the Present (Hamlet)CHAPTER 1: Heterotropologies: Towards a theory of the theatrical trope (Hamlet and chiasmus)CHAPTER 2: The Contemporary Transformations of Spatial Experience - and their Fall-Out: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and HamletCHAPTER 3: The Court, the Masque, and FrictionCHAPTER 4: Cultural Catachresis, Cultural Memory and the New Globe TheatreCHAPTER 5:Feminine Sexuality, Incest and Gender Coercion in Ford\'s \'Tis Pity She\'s a Whore .CHAPTER 6: Un-Fashioning Gendered Bodies on the Restoration Stage (Etheredge\'s Man of Mode)CHAPTER 7: Time, Space, Emulation and Violence in Troilus and CressidaCHAPTER 8: Deadly Affect and Moribund \'Epochality\' in Troilus and CressidaCHAPTER 9: \'Have you a mind to sink?\' - Imagining Liminal and Oceanic Spatiality in King Lear, Hamlet and The Tempest (Anya Heise-von der Lippe)CHAPTER 10: Shakespeare\'s Aquatopia: The Tempest in an Age of Blue Humanities (Pavan Kumar Malreddy)CHAPTER 11: Postcolonial Texts, Colonial Intertexts and their Imbrications - Macbeth and the Sonnets in Gail Jones\'s Sorry.CHAPTER 12: Macbeth, Auerbach, Vladislavic - Figural readings and temporalities of crisis in JohannesburgCHAPTER 13: Exceptional Shakespeare: (Mediated) Rendition and the Carceral Middle East in Iqbal Khan\'s Othello (Keyvan Allahyari) CODA: What is my contemporary? (Romeo and Juliet)BIBLIOGRAPHYACKNOWLEDGEMENTS