Shakesqueer : a queer companion to the complete works of Shakespeare / edited by Madhavi Menon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Menon, Madhavi, editor.

Series:

Series Q.

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Series Q

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.

Queer theory.

Homosexuality in the theater.

Homosexuality in the theater--16th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 494 pages)

Place of Publication:

Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Shakesqueer puts the most exciting queer theorists in conversation with the complete works of William Shakespeare. Exploring what is odd, eccentric, and unexpected in the Bard's plays and poems, these theorists highlight not only the many ways that Shakespeare can be queered but also the many ways that Shakespeare can enrich queer theory. This innovative anthology reveals an early modern playwright insistently returning to questions of language, identity, and temporality, themes central to contemporary queer theory. Since many of the contributors do not study early modern literature, Shakesqueer takes queer theory back and brings Shakespeare forward, challenging the chronological confinement of queer theory to the last two hundred years. The book also challenges conceptual certainties that have narrowly equated queerness with homosexuality. Chasing all manner of stray desires through every one of Shakespeare's plays and poems, the contributors cross temporal, animal, theoretical, and sexual boundaries with abandon. Claiming adherence to no one school of thought, the essays consider The Winter's Tale alongside network TV, Hamlet in relation to the death drive, King John as a history of queer theory, and Much Ado About Nothing in tune with a Sondheim musical. Together they expand the reach of queerness and queer critique across chronologies, methodologies, and bodies."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

All is True (Henry VIII) : The Unbearable Sex of Henry VIII / Steven Bruhm

All's Well That Ends Well : is Marriage Always Already Heterosexual? / Julie Crawford

Antony and Cleopatra : Aught an Eunuch Has / Ellis Hanson - As You Like It : Fortune?'s Turn / Valerie Rohy

Cardenio : "Absonant Desire": The Question of Cardenio / Philip Lorenz

The Comedy of Errors : In Praise of Error / LynNe Huffer

Coriolanus : "Tell Me Not Wherein I Seem Unnatural?" : Queer meditations on Coriolanus in the Time of War / Jason Edwards

Cymbeline : desire vomit emptiness : Cymbeline's marriage time / Amanda Berry

Hamlet : Hamlet?s Wounded Name / Lee Edelman

Henry IV, Part 1 : When Harry Met Harry / Matt Bell

King Henry IV, Part 2 : The Deep Structure of Sexuality : War and Masochism in Henry IV, Part 2 / Daniel Juan Gil

King Henry V : Scambling Harry and Sampling Hal / Drew Daniel

Henry VI, Part 1 : "Wounded Alpha Bad Boy Soldier" / Mario DiGangi

Henry VI, Part 2 : The Gayest Play Ever / Stephen Guy-Bray

Henry VI, Part 3 : Stay / Cary Howie

Julius Caesar : Thus, Always : Julius Caesar and Abraham Lincoln / Bethany Schneider

King John : Queer Futility: Or, The Life and Death of King John / Kathryn Schwarz

King Lear : Lear's Queer Cosmos / Laurie Shannon

A Lover's Complaint : Learning How to Love (Again) / Ashley T. Shelden

Love's Labour's Lost : The L Words / Madhavi Menon Love's Labour's Won : Doctorin? the Bard: A Contemporary Appropriation of Love's Labour's Won / Hector Kollias

Macbeth : Milk / Heather Love

Measure for Measure : Same-Saint Desire / Paul Morrison

The Merchant of Venice : The Rites of Queer Marriage in The Merchant of Venice / Arthur L. Little Jr.

The Merry Wives of Windsor : What Do Women Want? / Jonathan Goldberg

A Midsummer Night's Dream : Shakespeare's Ass Play / Richard Rambuss

Much Ado About Nothing : Closing Ranks, Keeping Company : Marriage Plots and the Will to be Single in Much Ado about Nothing / Ann Pellegrini

Othello : Othello?s Penis: Or, Islam in the Closet / Daniel Boyarin

Pericles : "Curious Pleasures" : Pericles beyond the Civility of Union / Patrick O'Malley

The Phoenix and the Turtle : Number There in Love Was Slain / Karl Steel

The Rape of Lucrece : Desire My Pilot Is / Peter Coviello

Richard II : Pretty Richard / Judith Brown

Richard III : Fuck the Disabled : The Prequel / Robert McRuer

Romeo and Juliet : Romeo and Juliet Love Death / Carla Freccero

Sir Thomas More : More or Less Queer / Jeffrey Masten

The Sonnets : Momma's Boys / Aranye Fradenburg

Speech Therapy / Barbara Johnson

More Life : Shakespeare's Sonnet Machines / Julian Yates

The Taming of the Shrew : Latin Lovers in The Taming of the Shrew / Bruce Smith - The Tempest : Forgetting The Tempest / Kevin Ohi

Timon of Athens : Skepticism, Sovereignty, Sodomy / James Kuzner

Titus Andronicus : A Child's Garden of Atrocities / Michael Moon

Troilus and Cressida : The Leather Men and the Lovely Boy : Reading Positions in Troilus and Cressida / Alan Sinfield - Twelfth Night : Is There an Audience for My Play? / Sharon Holland

The Two Gentlemen of Verona : Pageboy, or The Two Gentlemen from Verona : The Movie / Amy Villarejo

The Two Noble Kinsmen : Philadelphia, or, War / Jody Greene

Venus and Adonis : Venus and Adonis Frieze / Andrew Nicholls

The Winter?s Tale

Lost, or "Exit, Pursued by a Bear": Causing Queer Children on Shakespeare's TV / Kathryn Bond.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822393337 (electronic book)

9786613251985

9781283251983

1283251981

9780822393337

0822393336

OCLC:

709619792