Introduction: Swervings: on human indistinction / Jean E. Feerick and Vin Nardizzi
The eight animals in Shakespeare; or, before the human / Laurie Shannon
"Half-fish, half-flesh": dolphins, the ocean, and early modern humans / Steve Mentz
Royal fish: Shakespeare's princely whales / Dan Brayton
You are what you eat: cooking and writing across the species barrier in Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fair / Jay Zysk
"A bett'ring of nature": grafting and embryonic development in The Duchess of Malfi / Erin Ellerbeck
Bastard grafts, crafted fruits: Shakespeare's planted families / Miranda Wilson
The wooden matter of human bodies: prosthesis and stump in A larum for London / Vin Nardizzi
Vegetable love: botany and sexuality in seventeenth-century England / Marjorie Swann
On vegetating virgins: greensickness and the plant realm in early modern literature / Hillary M. Nunn
A heart of stone: the ungodly in early modern England / Tiffany Jo Werth
Of stones and stony hearts: Desdemona, Hermione, and post-Reformation theater / Jennifer Waldron
Groveling with earth in Kyd and Shakespeare's historical tragedies / Jean E. Feerick
The politic worm: invertebrate life in the early modern English body / Ian MacInnes.
