Section I: Staging the Death Arts
Chapter One: Shakespeare's Ars Moriendi, Andrew D. McCarthy
Chapter Two: Deciphering the Dead: Speaking for Corpses in Early Modern Drama, Brian Harries
Chapter Three: 'As thou art, I once was'-Death's Unstable Binary, Eileen Sperry
Chapter Four: Antony and Cleopatra and the Vicissitudes of Monumentalization, Grant Williams
Chapter Five: Tombs, Ooze, and Ashes in Pericles, Dorothy Todd
Chapter Six: Empathetic Reflections on Love, Life, and Death in Othello, Jessica Tooker
Chapter Seven: Othello's Speaking Corpses and the Performance of Memento Mori, Maggie Vinter:- Section II: Hamlet and the Death Arts
Chapter Eight: Turnings in the Grave: Riddles, Death, and Burial in Hamlet, Jonathan Baldo
Chapter Nine: The Theatre of Hamlet's Judgements, Zackariah Long
Chapter Ten: The Art of Losing: Description in Early Modern Rhetoric, Amanda K. Ruud
Chapter Eleven: 'Native and indued / Unto that element': Dissolution, Permeability, and the Death of Ophelia, Pamela Royston Macfie
Chapter Twelve: Artful Death and Women's Suicide: Gertrude and Ophelia, Lina Perkins Wilder
Chapter Thirteen: Artless Deaths in Hamlet, Isabel Karremann
Chapter Fourteen: 'He made a good end': Middleness, Ending, and Annihilation in Hamlet, Michael Neill.