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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Queer Shakes -- All is True (Henry VIII) The Unbearable Sex of Henry VIII -- All’s Well That Ends Well Or, Is Marriage Always Already Heterosexual? -- Antony and Cleopatra Aught an Eunuch Has -- As You Like It Fortune’s Turn -- Cardenio ‘‘Absonant Desire’’: The Question of Cardenio -- The Comedy of Errors In Praise of Error -- Coriolanus ‘‘Tell Me Not Wherein I Seem Unnatural’’: Queer Meditations on Coriolanus in the Time of War -- Cymbeline desire vomit emptiness: Cymbeline’s Marriage Time -- Hamlet Hamlet’s Wounded Name -- Henry IV, Part 1. When Harry Met Harry -- Henry IV, Part 2. The Deep Structure of Sexuality: War and Masochism in Henry IV, Part 2 -- Henry V. Scambling Harry and Sampling Hal -- Henry VI, Part 1. ‘‘Wounded Alpha Bad Boy Soldier’’ -- Henry VI, Part 2. The Gayest Play Ever -- Henry VI, Part 3. Stay -- Julius Caesar. Thus, Always: Julius Caesar and Abraham Lincoln -- King John. Queer Futility: Or, The Life and Death of King John -- King Lear. Lear’s Queer Cosmos -- A Lover’s Complaint. Learning How to Love (Again) -- Love’s Labour’s Lost. The L Words -- Love’s Labour’s Won. Doctorin’ the Bard: A Contemporary Appropriation of Love’s Labour’s Won -- Macbeth. Milk -- Measure for Measure. Same-Saint Desire -- The Merchant of Venice. The Rites of Queer Marriage in The Merchant of Venice -- The Merry Wives of Windsor. What Do Women Want? -- A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Shakespeare’s Ass Play -- Much Ado About Nothing Closing Ranks, Keeping Company: Marriage Plots and the Will to be Single in Much Ado About Nothin -- Othello Othello’s Penis: Or, Islam in the Closet -- Pericles ‘‘Curious Pleasures’’: Pericles beyond the Civility of Union -- The Phoenix and the Turtle Number There in Love Was Slain -- The Rape of Lucrece. Desire My Pilot Is -- Richard II. Pretty Richard (in Three Parts) -- Richard III. Fuck the Disabled: The Prequel -- Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet Love Death -- Sir Thomas More More or Less Queer -- The Sonnets. Momma’s Boys -- The Sonnets. Speech Therapy -- The Sonnets. More Life: Shakespeare’s Sonnet Machines -- The Taming of the Shrew. Latin Lovers in The Taming of the Shrew -- The Tempest. Forgetting The Tempest -- Timon of Athens. Skepticism, Sovereignty, Sodomy -- Titus Andronicus. A Child’s Garden of Atrocities -- Troilus and Cressida. The Leather Men and the Lovely Boy: Reading Positions in Troilus and Cressida -- Twelfth Night. Is There an Audience for My Play? -- The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Pageboy, or, The Two Gentlemen from Verona: The Movie -- The Two Noble Kinsmen. Philadelphia, or, War 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.Contributors. Matt Bell, Amanda Berry, Daniel Boyarin, Judith Brown, Steven Bruhm, Peter Coviello, Julie Crawford, Drew Daniel, Mario DiGangi, Lee Edelman, Jason Edwards, Aranye Fradenburg, Carla Freccero, Daniel Juan Gil, Jonathan Goldberg, Jody Greene, Stephen Guy-Bray, Ellis Hanson, Sharon Holland, Cary Howie, Lynne Huffer, Barbara Johnson, Hector Kollias, James Kuzner , Arthur L. Little Jr., Philip Lorenz, Heather Love, Jeffrey Masten, Robert McRuer , Madhavi Menon, Michael Moon, Paul Morrison, Andrew Nicholls, Kevin Ohi, Patrick R. O’Malley, Ann Pellegrini, Richard Rambuss, Valerie Rohy, Bethany Schneider, Kathryn Schwarz, Laurie Shannon, Ashley T. Shelden, Alan Sinfield, Bruce Smith, Karl Steel, Kathryn Bond Stockton, Amy Villarejo, Julian Yates
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