Queer Shakespeare: Desire and Sexuality

Synopsis

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. Introduction: Queer Shakespeare- Desire And Sexuality / Goran Stanivukovic -- Part I. Queer Time. 'which Is Worthiest Love' In The Two Gentlemen Of Verona? / David L. Orvis -- Glass: The Sonnets' Desiring Object / John S. Garrison -- The Sport Of Asses: A Midsummer Night's Dream / Kirk Quinsland -- As You Like It Or What You Will: Shakespeare's Sonnets And Beccadelli's Hermaphroditus / Ian Frederick Moulton. Part Ii. Queer Language. The Queer Language Of Size In Love's Labour's Lost / Valerie Billing -- Locating Queerness In Cymbeline / Stephen Guy-bray -- Desiring H: Much Ado About Nothing And The Sound Of Women's Desire / Holly Dugan -- 'two Lips, Indifferent Red': Queer Styles In Twelfth Night / Goran Stanivukovic. Part Iii. Queer Nature. Queer Nature, Or The Weather In Macbeth / Christine Varnado -- Strange Insertions In The Merchant Of Venice / Eliza Greenstadt -- Male Femininity And Male-to-female Crossdressing In Shakespeare's Plays And Poems / Simone Chess -- Held In Common: Romeo And Juliet And The Promiscuous Seductions Of Plague / Kathryn Schwarz -- Antisocial Procreation In Measure For Measure / Melissa E. Sanchez -- Afterword / Vin Nardizzi. Edited By Goran Stanivukovic. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 365-396) And Index.