Shakesqueer

Madhavi Menon, ed.

A queer guide to the complete works of Shakespeare.

Acknowledgments ixIntroduction. Queer Shakes / Madhavi Menon 1All is True (Henry VIII)The Unbearable Sex of Henry VIII / Steven Bruhm 28All's Well That Ends WellIs Marriage Always Already Heterosexual? / Julie Crawford 39Antony and CleopatraAught an Eunuch Has / Ellis Hanson 48As You Like ItFortune's Turn / Valerie Rohy 55Cardenio"Absonant Desire": The Question of Cardenio / Philip Lorenz 62The Comedy of ErrorsIn Praise of Error / Lynne Huffer 72Coriolanus"Tell Me Not Wherein I Seem Unnatural": Queer Meditations on Coriolanus in the Time of War / Jason Edwards 80Cymbelinedesire vomit emptiness: Cymbeline's Marriage Time / Amanda Berry 89HamletHamlet's Wounded Name / Lee Edelman 97Henry IV, Part 1When Harry Met Harry / Matt Bell 106Henry IV, Part 2 The Deep Structure of Sexuality: War and Masochism in Henry IV, Part 2 / Daniel Juan Gil 114King Henry VScrambling Harry and Sampling Hal / Drew Daniel 121Henry VI, Part 1"Wounded Alpha Bad Boy Soldier" / Mario Digangi 130Henry VI, Part 2The Gayest Play Ever / Stephen Guy-Bray 139Henry VI, Part 3Stay / Cary Howie 146Julius CaeserThus, Always: Julius Caesar and Abraham Lincoln / Bethany Schneider 152King JohnQueer Futility: Or, The Life and Death of King John / Kathryn Schwarz 163King LearLear's Queer Cosmos / Laurie Shannon 171A Lover's ComplaintLearning How to Love (Again) / Ashley T. Shelden 179Love's Labour's LostThe L Words / Madhavi Menon 187Love's Labour's WonDoctorin' the Bard: A Contemporary Appropriation of Love's Labour's Won / Hector Kollias 194MacbethMilk / Heather Love 201Measure for MeasureSame-Saint Desire / Paul Morrison 209The Merchant of VeniceThe Rites of Queer Marriage in The Merchant of Venice / Arthur L. Little Jr. 216The Merry Wives of WindsorWhat Do Women Want? / Jonathan Goldberg 225A Midsummer Night's DreamShakespeare's Ass Play / Richard Rambuss 234Much Ado About NothingClosing Ranks, Keeping Company: Marriage Plots and the Will to be Single in Much Ado About Nothing / Ann Pellegrini 245OthelloOthello's Penis: Or, Islam in the Closet / Daniel Boyarin 254Pericles"Curious Pleasures": Pericles beyond the Civility of Union / Patrick O'Malley 263The Phoenix and the TurtleNumber There in Love Was Slain / Karl Steel 271The Rape of LucreeDesire My Pilot Is / Peter Coviello 278Richard IIPretty Richard / Judith Brown 286Richard IIIFuck the Disabled: The Prequel / Robert McRuer 294Romeo and JulietRomeo and Juliet Love Death / Carla Freccero 302Sir Thomas MoreMore or Less Queer / Jeffrey Masten 309The SonnetsMomma's Boy / Aranye Fradenburg 319Speech Therapy / Barbara Johnson 328More Life: Shakespeare's Sonnet Machines / Julian Yates 333The Taming of the ShrewLatin Lovers in The Taming of the Shrew / Bruce Smith 343The TempestForgetting The Tempest / Kevin Ohi 351Timon of AthensSkepticism, Sovereignty, Sodomy / James Kuzner 361Titus AndronicusA Child's Garden of Atrocities / Michael Moon 369Troilus and CressidaThe Leather Men and the Lovely Boy: Reading Positions in Troilus and Cressida / Alan Sinfeild 376Twelfth NightIs There an Audience for My Play? / Sharon Holland 385The Two Gentlemen of VeronaPageboy, or The Two Gentlemen of Verona: The Movie / Amy Villajero 394The Two Noble KinsmenPhiladelphia, or War / Jody Greene 404Venus and Adonis421Venus and Adonis Freeze / Andrew Nicholls 414The Winter's TaleLost, or "Exit, Pursued by a Bear": Causing Queer Children on Shakespeare's TV / Kathryn Bond Stockton 421References 429Further Reading 449Contributors 467Index 477