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