Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- INTRODUCTION -- Palimpsested Time: Toward a Theory of Untimely Matter -- PART I: Supersessions -- ONE -- Reading Matter: George Herbert and the East-West Palimpsests of The Temple -- TWO -- Performing History: East-West Palimpsests in William Shakespeare's Second Henriad -- PART II:Explosions -- THREE -- The Writing on the Wall: London's Old Jewry and John Stow's Urban Palimpsest -- FOUR -- The Smell of Gunpowder: Macbeth and the Palimpsests of Olfaction -- PART III: Conjunctions -- FIVE -- Touching Matters: Margaret Cavendish's and Hélène Cixous's Palimpsested Bodies -- SIX -- Crumpled Handkerchiefs: William Shakespeare's and Michel Serres's Palimpsested Time -- CODA -- Dis-Orientations: Eastern Nonstandard Time -- NOTES -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

Jonathan Gil Harris challenges the way we conventionally understand physical objects. Turning to Renaissance theories of matter, he considers the profound untimeliness of things, focusing particularly on Shakespeare's stage materials.

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