List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors A Note about the Text Acknowledgments Introduction to the second edition: Queer Shakespeare: desire, sexuality and embodiment. Goran Stanivukovic (Saint Mary's University, Canada ) PART I: QUEER TIME 1. 'Which is the worthiest love' in Two Gentlemen of Verona . David L. Orvis (Appalachian State University, USA) 2. Glass: The Sonnets' Desiring Object. John S. Garrison ( Independent Scholar, USA ) 3.

The Sport of Asses: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Kirk Quinsland (Fordham University, USA ) 4. Shakespeare's Sonnets and Beccadelli's Hermaphroditus . Ian Frederick Moulton (Arizona State University, USA) PART II: QUEER LANGUAGE 5. The Queer Language of Size in Love's Labour's Lost . Valerie Billing (Central College, USA ) 6. Locating Queerness in Cymbeline . Stephen Guy-Bray (The University of British Columbia, Canada) 7.

Much Ado About Nothing and The Sound of Women's Desire. Holly Dugan (George Washington University, USA) 8. Queer Styles in Twelfth Night . Goran Stanivukovic, (Saint Mary's University, Canada) PART III: QUEER NATURE 9. Queer Nature, or the Weather in Macbeth . Christine Varnado (Buffalo-State University of New York, USA) 10. Strange Insertions in The Merchant of Venice . Eliza Greenstadt + (Portland State University, USA) 11.

Romeo and Juliet and the Promiscuous Seductions of Plague. Kathryn Schwarz (Vanderbilt University, USA) 12. Antisocial Procreation in Measure for Measure . Melissa E. Sanchez (University of Pennsylvania, USA) PART IV: TRANS ANALYSIS 13. Male Femininity and Male-to-Female Crossdressing in Shakespeare's Plays and Poems. Simone Chess (Wayne State University, USA) 14. The Taming of the 'Lady' in The Shrew.

Don Rodrigues (Old Dominion University, USA) 15. How Do You Solve a Problem Like Adonis?, James Yukiko Mulder (Bentley University, USA) PART V: QUEER INTERSECTIONS 16. Queerness and Race in Shakespeare. Anita Raychawdhuri (Universitat de Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain) 17. Queer/Crip Ovidian (dis)inheritances in Venus and Adonis . Lee Hansen ( Independent Scholar, UK) 18. The Limits of Queerness in Contemporary Performances of Shakespeare. Curtis Dunn (Independent Scholar, USA) Afterword to the First Edition , Vin Nardizzi (University of British Columbia, Canada) Bibliography Index.