Now available in paperback, Queer Shakespeare: Desire and Sexuality draws together 13 essays, which offer a major reassessment of the criticism of desire, body and sexuality in Shakespeare's drama and poetry. Bringing together some of the most prominent critics working at the intersection of Shakespeare criticism and queer theory, this collection demonstrates the vibrancy of queer Shakespeare studies. Taken together, these essays explore embodiment, desire, sexuality and gender as key objects of analyses, producing concepts and ideas that draw critical energy from focused studies of time, language and nature. The Afterword extends these inquiries by linking the Anthropocene and queer ecology with Shakespeare criticism. Works from Shakespeare's entire canon feature in essays which explore topics like glass, love, antitheatrical homophobia, size, narrative, sound, female same-sex desire and Petrarchism, weather, usury and sodomy, male femininity and male-to-female crossdressing, contagion, and antisocial procreation.

A major re-assessment of desire, sexuality and same-sex eroticism in Shakespeare's plays and non-dramatic poetry by world leading scholars.

About the Author
Goran Stanivukovic is Professor of English at Saint Mary's University. His most recent publication is Knights in Arms: Prose Romance, Masculinity, and Eastern Mediterranean Trade in Early Modern England, 1565-1655 (Universityof Toronto Press, 2016).

Reviews
Queer Shakespeare engages with crucial yet subversive queerness throughout Shakespearean poetry and performance. Unifying past scholarship with vital queer theory, Stanivukovic's collection reveals necessary insights into our evolving relationship with Shakespeare. -- Peter Kuling, University of Ottawa, Canada



Book Information
ISBN 9781350084476
Author Goran Stanivukovic
Format Paperback
Page Count 424
Imprint The Arden Shakespeare
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 446g