Queer Shakespeare Desire and Sexuality

Queer Shakespeare draws together 13 essays, which offer a major reassessment of criticism of desire, body, and sexuality in Shakespeare. Bringing together some of the most prominent critics working at the intersection of Shakespeare studies and queer early modern criticism, this collection demonstrates that queer Shakespeare studies is a burgeoning scholarly field. Taken together, these essays consider body, desire, gender and sexuality as key objects of analyses, producing concepts and ideas that draw power from a focused study of time, language, and nature of queer Shakespeare. The Afterward extends these inquiries through an engagement of the Anthropocene and queer ecologies with Shakespeare criticism. Works from the entire canon of Shakespeare writing feature in chapters which explore topics like love, glass, antitheatrical homophobia, Italian resources for the writing of desire in the Sonnets, size, narrative, sound, female same-sex desire and Petrarchism, weather, usury and sodomy, male femininity and male-to-female crossdressing, contagion, and antisocial procreation.

Goran Stanivukovic is Professor of English at Saint Mary's University. His most recent publication isKnights inArms:ProseRomance,Masculinity, and Eastern Mediterranean Trade in EarlyModern England, 1565-1655 (Universityof Toronto Press, 2016).

Here's a revised Table of Contents:

Introduction: 'Queer Shakespeare: Desire and Sexuality', by Goran Stanivukovic, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada
1.'Which is worthiest love' in Two Gentlemen of Verona?, by David L. Orvis, Appalachan State University, USA
2. 'Glass: The Sonnets' Desiring Object', by John Garrison, Carroll University USA
3. 'The Sport of Asses: A Midsummer Night's Dream', by Kirk Quinsland, Fordham University, USA
4. 'As You Like It or What You Will: Shakespeare's Sonnets and Beccadelli's Hermaphroditus', by Ian F. Moulton, Arizona State University, USA
5. 'The Queer Language of Size in Love's Labour's Lost', by Valerie Billing, Knox College, USA
6. 'Locating Queerness in Cymbeline', by Stephen Guy-Bray, University of British Columbia, Canada
7. 'Desiring H: Much Ado About Nothing and the Sound of Women's Desire', by Holly Dugan, George Washington University, USA
8. '“Two lips, indifferent red:' Queer Styles in Twelfth Night', by Goran Stanivukovic, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada
9. 'Queer Nature, or the Weather in Macbeth', by Christine Varnado, State University of New York, Buffallo, USA
10. 'Strange Insertions in The Merchant of Venice', by Eliza Greenstadt, Portland State University, USA
11. 'Male Femininity and Male-to-Female Crossdressing in Shakespeare's Plays and Poems,' by Simone Chess, Wayne State University, USA
12. 'Held in Common: Romeo and Juliet and The Promiscuous Seductions of Plague', by Kathryn Schwarz, Vanderbilt University, USA
13. 'Antisocial Procreation in Measure for Measure', by Melissa E. Sanchez, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Afterword by Vin Nardizzi, University of British Columbia, Canada

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