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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.

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Contents

Acknowledgments................................................................................................................................................xAll is True (Henry VIII) The Unbearable Sex of Henry VIII STEVEN BRUHM.......................................................................................8All's Well That Ends Well Or, Is Marriage Always Already Heterosexual? JULIE CRAWFORD........................................................................39Antony and Cleopatra Aught an Eunuch Has ELLIS HANSON........................................................................................................48As You Like It Fortune's Turn VALERIE ROHY...................................................................................................................55Cardenio "Absonant Desire": The Question of Cardenio PHILIP LORENZ.........................................................................................62The Comedy of Errors In Praise of Error LYNNE HUFFER.........................................................................................................72Coriolanus "Tell Me Not Wherein I Seem Unnatural": Queer Meditations on Coriolanus in the Time of War JASON EDWARDS..........................................80Cymbeline desire vomit emptiness: Cymbeline's Marriage Time AMANDA BERRY.....................................................................................89Hamlet Hamlet's Wounded Name LEE EDELMAN.....................................................................................................................97Henry IV, Part 1 When Harry Met Harry MATT BELL..............................................................................................................106King Henry IV, Part 2 The Deep Structure of Sexuality: War and Masochism in Henry IV, Part 2 DANIEL JUAN GIL.................................................114King Henry V Scambling Harry and Sampling Hal DREW DANIEL....................................................................................................121Henry VI, Part 1 "Wounded Alpha Bad Boy Soldier" MARIO DIGANGI...............................................................................................130Henry VI, Part 2 The Gayest Play Ever STEPHEN GUY-BRAY.......................................................................................................139Henry VI, Part 3 Stay CARY HOWIE.............................................................................................................................146Julius Caesar Thus, Always: Julius Caesar and Abraham Lincoln BETHANY SCHNEIDER..............................................................................152King John Queer Futility: Or, The Life and Death of King John KATHRYN SCHWARZ................................................................................163King Lear Lear's Queer Cosmos LAURIE SHANNON.................................................................................................................171A Lover's Complaint Learning How to Love (Again) ASHLEY T. SHELDEN...........................................................................................179Love's Labour's Lost The L Words MADHAVI MENON..............................................................................................................187Love's Labour's Won Doctorin' the Bard: A Contemporary Appropriation of Love's Labour's Won HECTOR KOLLIAS...................................................194Macbeth Milk HEATHER LOVE....................................................................................................................................201Measure for Measure Same-Saint Desire PAUL MORRISON..........................................................................................................209The Merchant of Venice The Rites of Queer Marriage in The Merchant of Venice ARTHUR L. LITTLE JR.............................................................216The Merry Wives of Windsor What Do Women Want? JONATHAN GOLDBERG.............................................................................................225A Midsummer Night's Dream Shakespeare's Ass Play RICHARD RAMBUSS.............................................................................................234Much Ado About Nothing Closing Ranks, Keeping Company: Marriage Plots and the Will to be Single in Much Ado about Nothing ANN PELLEGRINI.....................245Othello Othello'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 Turtle Number There in Love Was Slain KARL STEEL.........................................................................................271The Rape of Lucrece Desire My Pilot Is PETER COVIELLO........................................................................................................278Richard II Pretty Richard (in Three Parts) JUDITH BROWN......................................................................................................286Richard III Fuck the Disabled: The Prequel ROBERT MCRUER.....................................................................................................294Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet Love Death CARLA FRECCERO..................................................................................................302Sir Thomas More More or Less Queer JEFFREY MASTEN............................................................................................................309The Sonnets Momma's Boys ARANYE FRADENBURG...................................................................................................................319Speech Therapy BARBARA JOHNSON................................................................................................................................328More Life: Shakespeare's Sonnet Machines JULIAN YATES.........................................................................................................333The Taming of the Shrew Latin Lovers in The Taming of the Shrew BRUCE SMITH...................................................................................343The Tempest Forgetting The Tempest KEVIN OHI.................................................................................................................351Timon of Athens Skepticism, Sovereignty, Sodomy JAMES KUZNER.................................................................................................361Titus Andronicus A Child's Garden of Atrocities MICHAEL MOON.................................................................................................369Troilus and Cressida The Leather Men and the Lovely Boy: Reading Positions in Troilus and Cressida ALAN SINFIELD............................................376Twelfth Night Is There an Audience for My Play? SHARON HOLLAND...............................................................................................385The Two Gentlemen of Verona Pageboy, or, The Two Gentlemen from Verona: The Movie AMY VILLAREJO...............................................................394The Two Noble Kinsmen Philadelphia, or, War JODY...