Darryl Chalk is Theatre Convenor and Senior Lecturer, University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Rebecca Totaro is Associate Dean and Professor of English, College of Arts & Sciences, Florida Gulf Coast University, USA.

• 1. Introduction: Care and Contagion in King Lear, by Way of IntroductionDarryl Chalk (University of Southern Queensland, Australia)PART I: Women’s Care Networks2. Domestic Communities of Care in Shakespeare’s Later PlaysJennifer Forsyth (Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, USA)3. Vegetal Care in The Winter’s Tale Susan C. Staub (Appalachian State University, USA)4. “A terrible childbed has thou had, my dear”: Pregnant Embodiment and Caregiving Networks in PericlesKatarzyna Burzynska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland)PART II: Alternative Care Networks5. “Drown the lamenting fool”: Heart Health, Weeping, and Contagion in Titus AndronicusClaire Hansen (Australian National University, Australia)6. “We did not all dye thereof”: Chemical Medicine and the Shut House in Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist (1610) and Mary Trye’s Medicatrix (1675)Kathleen Miller (Trinity College, Dublin, Republic of Ireland)7. Astral Networks and Almanacs in The Duchess of MalfiKatherine Walker (University of Nevada, USA)PART III: Denial of Network Care8. Sallow Hal: Care and Concern in the HenriadLaurie Johnson (University of Southern Queensland, Australia)9. “Power, time, means to meet”—Plague, Movement, and Wealth in Romeo and Juliet Eileen Sperry (SUNY Empire State College, NY, USA)10. Community and Radical Self Care in Titus AndronicusMia Escott (Berry College, USA)PART IV: Out of Network Care11. Who Cares? Servants and Caregiving in King Lear Heidi Craig (Texas A&M University, USA)12. Laughing at Illness: Contagion and Care in The Roaring GirlMolly Ziegler (Open University, UK)13. Afterword Rebecca Totaro (Florida Gulf Coast University, USA)