Menon / Barale / Goldberg Shakesqueer

A Queer Companion to the Complete Works of Shakespeare
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9333-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 506 Seiten

Reihe: Series Q

Shakesqueer puts the most exciting queer theorists in conversation with the complete works of William Shakespeare.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Menon, Madhavi

Barale, Michèle Aina

Goldberg, Jonathan

Moon, Michael

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction. Queer Shakes / Madhavi Menon 1

All is True (Henry VIII)
The Unbearable Sex of Henry VIII / Steven Bruhm 28

All's Well That Ends Well
Is Marriage Always Already Heterosexual? / Julie Crawford 39

Antony and Cleopatra
Aught an Eunuch Has / Ellis Hanson 48

As You Like It
Fortune's Turn / Valerie Rohy 55

Cardenio
"Absonant Desire": The Question of Cardenio / Philip Lorenz 62

The Comedy of Errors
In Praise of Error / Lynne Huffer 72

Coriolanus
"Tell Me Not Wherein I Seem Unnatural": Queer Meditations on Coriolanus in the Time of War / Jason Edwards 80

Cymbeline
desire vomit emptiness: Cymbeline's Marriage Time / Amanda Berry 89

Hamlet
Hamlet's Wounded Name / Lee Edelman 97

Henry IV, Part 1
When Harry Met Harry / Matt Bell 106

Henry IV, Part 2
The Deep Structure of Sexuality: War and Masochism in Henry IV, Part 2 / Daniel Juan Gil 114

King Henry V
Scrambling Harry and Sampling Hal / Drew Daniel 121

Henry VI, Part 1
"Wounded Alpha Bad Boy Soldier" / Mario Digangi 130

Henry VI, Part 2
The Gayest Play Ever / Stephen Guy-Bray 139

Henry VI, Part 3
Stay / Cary Howie 146

Julius Caeser
Thus, Always: Julius Caesar and Abraham Lincoln / Bethany Schneider 152

King John
Queer Futility: Or, The Life and Death of King John / Kathryn Schwarz 163

King Lear
Lear's Queer Cosmos / Laurie Shannon 171

A Lover's Complaint
Learning How to Love (Again) / Ashley T. Shelden 179

Love's Labour's Lost
The L Words / Madhavi Menon 187

Love's Labour's Won
Doctorin' the Bard: A Contemporary Appropriation of Love's Labour's Won / Hector Kollias 194

Macbeth
Milk / Heather Love 201

Measure for Measure
Same-Saint Desire / Paul Morrison 209

The Merchant of Venice
The Rites of Queer Marriage in The Merchant of Venice / Arthur L. Little Jr. 216

The Merry Wives of Windsor
What Do Women Want? / Jonathan Goldberg 225

A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare's Ass Play / Richard Rambuss 234

Much Ado About Nothing
Closing Ranks, Keeping Company: Marriage Plots and the Will to be Single in Much Ado About Nothing / Ann Pellegrini 245

Othello
Othello's Penis: Or, Islam in the Closet / Daniel Boyarin 254

Pericles
"Curious Pleasures": Pericles beyond the Civility of Union / Patrick O'Malley 263

The Phoenix and the Turtle
Number There in Love Was Slain / Karl Steel 271

The Rape of Lucree
Desire My Pilot Is / Peter Coviello 278

Richard II
Pretty Richard / Judith Brown 286

Richard III
Fuck the Disabled: The Prequel / Robert McRuer 294

Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet Love Death / Carla Freccero 302

Sir Thomas More
More or Less Queer / Jeffrey Masten 309

The Sonnets
Momma's Boy / Aranye Fradenburg 319

Speech Therapy / Barbara Johnson 328

More Life: Shakespeare's Sonnet Machines / Julian Yates 333

The Taming of the Shrew
Latin Lovers in The Taming of the Shrew / Bruce Smith 343

The Tempest
Forgetting The Tempest / Kevin Ohi 351

Timon of Athens
Skepticism, Sovereignty, Sodomy / James Kuzner 361

Titus Andronicus
A Child's Garden of Atrocities / Michael Moon 369

Troilus and Cressida
The Leather Men and the Lovely Boy: Reading Positions in Troilus and Cressida / Alan Sinfeild 376

Twelfth Night
Is There an Audience for My Play? / Sharon Holland 385

The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Pageboy, or The Two Gentlemen of Verona: The Movie / Amy Villajero 394

The Two Noble Kinsmen
Philadelphia, or War / Jody Greene 404

Venus and Adonis421
Venus and Adonis Freeze / Andrew Nicholls 414

The Winter's Tale
Lost, or "Exit, Pursued by a Bear": Causing Queer Children on Shakespeare's TV / Kathryn Bond Stockton 421

References 429

Further Reading 449

Contributors 467

Index 477

Über Autor(innen)

Madhavi Menon is Associate Professor of Literature at American University. She is the author of Unhistorical Shakespeare: Queer Theory in Shakespearean Literature and Film and Wanton Words: Rhetoric and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama.