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Cover -- Anthropocene Theater And The Shakespearean Stage -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Early Modern Drama And The Anthropocene -- From Shake-scene To Anthropo-cene -- Provincializing The Anthropocene: Theater As A Resource -- Nature's Empire -- Oops: Nature's Distributive Agency As Accident -- Imperial Materials -- Anachropocene -- The Economy Of Tragedy -- Chapter Breakdown -- Part I. Eco-materialist History -- 1. Grafting And Ecological Imperialism In John Fletcher's Bonduca -- Grafting And Colonial Incorporation Horticultural Grafting And English Colonialism -- Staging Ecological Consequences -- 2. Hewers Of Wood, Drawers Of Gall: The Wooden Economies Of Race In Titus Andronicus And Lust's Dominion -- Cork And Moors On The Early Modern Stage -- Aaron And Eleazar: Embodying The Indistinct Human On The Early Modern Stage -- Eleazar, Inkface, And The Manipulation Of The Written Word -- 3. Hemp, Tobacco, And Hot Commodities On The English Stage -- Commercial Hemp In Shakespeare's Ladder Plays -- The Ropery Of Gallop's Ladder In A Christian Turn'd Turk -- What Were The English Smoking? With Thy Daring Folly Burn The World: Hemp And Race In Shakespeare -- Part Ii: Eco-global Performance -- 4. Monkeys, Floods, And The Immortal William: Enduring Nature And Playing Shakespeare In The British Empire -- These Our Actors: Endeavours To Keep The Shakespeare Flag Flying -- Rain, Wind, Thunder, Fire: Shakespeare Against The Elements -- Where We Lay Our Scene: The Improvised Stages Of The British Empire -- 5. Stolen Thunder: Performing Shakespearean Weather Events In The Anthropocene -- Assisting The Storm: Provincializing The Species Narrative Of The Anthropocene How To Do Things With Storms: A Theater Of The Anthropocene -- Stolen Thunder: Performing Weather Events On The Colonial Stage -- Part Iii: Distributive Justice In The Oikeios -- 6. Shaking The Superflux: Sin And Redemption Along Geological Faults In King Lear --