Queer Shakespeare: Desire and Sexuality

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Queer Shakespeare: Desire and Sexuality draws together 13 essays, which offer a major reassessment of the criticism of desire, body and sexuality in Shakespeare's drama and poetry. Bringing together some of the most prominent critics working at the intersection of Shakespeare criticism and queer theory, this collection demonstrates the vibrancy of queer Shakespeare studies. Taken together, these essays explore embodiment, desire, sexuality and gender as key objects of analyses, producing concepts and ideas that draw critical energy from focused studies of time, language and nature. The Afterword extends these inquiries by linking the Anthropocene and queer ecology with Shakespeare criticism. Works from Shakespeare's entire canon feature in essays which explore topics like glass, love, antitheatrical homophobia, size, narrative, sound, female same-sex desire and Petrarchism, weather, usury and sodomy, male femininity and male-to-female crossdressing, contagion, and antisocial procreation. Related Titles......Page 3 Title......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 Acknowledgements......Page 8 A note about the text......Page 9 Notes on contributors......Page 10 Introduction: Queer Shakespeare – desire and sexuality Goran Stanivukovic......Page 13 Part I Queer time......Page 36 1 ‘Which is worthiest love’ in The Two Gentlemen of Verona? David L. Orvis......Page 37 2 Glass: The Sonnets’ desiring object John S. Garrison......Page 50 3 The sport of asses: A Midsummer Night’s Dream Kirk Quinsland......Page 64 4 As You Like It or What You Will: Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Beccadelli’s Hermaphroditus Ian Frederick Moulton......Page 77 Part II Queer language......Page 91 5 The queer language of size in Love’s Labour’s Lost Valerie Billing......Page 92 6 Locating queerness in Cymbeline Stephen Guy-Bray......Page 105 7 Desiring H: Much Ado About Nothing and the sound of women’s desire Holly Dugan......Page 116 8 ‘Two lips, indifferent red’: Queer styles in Twelfth Night Goran Stanivukovic......Page 129 Part III Queer nature......Page 145 9 Queer nature, or the weather in Macbeth Christine Varnado......Page 146 10 Strange insertions in The Merchant of Venice Eliza Greenstadt......Page 161 11 Male femininity and male-to-female crossdressing in Shakespeare’s plays and poems Simone Chess......Page 185 12 Held in common: Romeo and Juliet and the promiscuous seductions of plague Kathryn Schwarz......Page 199 13 Antisocial procreation in Measure for Measure Melissa E. Sanchez......Page 212 Afterword Vin Nardizzi......Page 224 Notes......Page 236 Bibliography......Page 277 Index......Page 295 Copyright......Page 305