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Shakesqueer

A Queer Companion to the Complete Works of Shakespeare

Madhavi Menon, Michèle Aina Barale, Jonathan Goldberg, Michael Moon, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Madhavi Menon

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Shakesqueer

A Queer Companion to the Complete Works of Shakespeare

Madhavi Menon, Michèle Aina Barale, Jonathan Goldberg, Michael Moon, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Madhavi Menon

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Shakesqueer puts the most exciting queer theorists in conversation with the complete works of William Shakespeare. Exploring what is odd, eccentric, and unexpected in the Bard's plays and poems, these theorists highlight not only the many ways that Shakespeare can be queered but also the many ways that Shakespeare can enrich queer theory. This innovative anthology reveals an early modern playwright insistently returning to questions of language, identity, and temporality, themes central to contemporary queer theory. Since many of the contributors do not study early modern literature, Shakesqueer takes queer theory back and brings Shakespeare forward, challenging the chronological confinement of queer theory to the last two hundred years. The book also challenges conceptual certainties that have narrowly equated queerness with homosexuality. Chasing all manner of stray desires through every one of Shakespeare's plays and poems, the contributors cross temporal, animal, theoretical, and sexual boundaries with abandon. Claiming adherence to no one school of thought, the essays consider The Winter's Tale alongside network TV, Hamlet in relation to the death drive, King John as a history of queer theory, and Much Ado About Nothing in tune with a Sondheim musical. Together they expand the reach of queerness and queer critique across chronologies, methodologies, and bodies.

Contributors. Matt Bell, Amanda Berry, Daniel Boyarin, Judith Brown, Steven Bruhm, Peter Coviello, Julie Crawford, Drew Daniel, Mario DiGangi, Lee Edelman, Jason Edwards, Aranye Fradenburg, Carla Freccero, Daniel Juan Gil, Jonathan Goldberg, Jody Greene, Stephen Guy-Bray, Ellis Hanson, Sharon Holland, Cary Howie, Lynne Huffer, Barbara Johnson, Hector Kollias, James Kuzner, Arthur L. Little Jr., Philip Lorenz, Heather Love, Jeffrey Masten, Robert McRuer, Madhavi Menon, Michael Moon, Paul Morrison, Andrew Nicholls, Kevin Ohi, Patrick R. O'Malley, Ann Pellegrini, Richard Rambuss, Valerie Rohy, Bethany Schneider, Kathryn Schwarz, Laurie Shannon, Ashley T. Shelden, Alan Sinfield, Bruce Smith, Karl Steel, Kathryn Bond Stockton, Amy Villarejo, Julian Yates

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Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Year
2011
ISBN
9780822393337
Topic
Literatur
Subtopic
Literaturkritik von Shakespeare
113
c
Henry 
IV, 
Part 
1
ies’’ 
since 
the 
mid-1990s 
include 
Foster 
et 
al., 
The 
Gay 
’90’s
; 
the 
‘‘Black 
Queer 
Studies
in 
the 
Millennium’’ 
conference 
in 
2000 
at 
the 
University 
of 
North 
Carolina, 
Chapel
Hill, 
which 
yielded 
Johnson 
and 
Henderson, 
Black 
Queer 
Studies
; 
and 
Eng 
et 
al.,
‘‘What’s 
Queer 
about 
Queer 
Studies 
Now?’’
3. 
Cvetkovich, 
‘‘Public 
Feelings,’’ 
463.
4. 
Goldberg, 
‘‘Desiring 
Hal,’’ 
145–75.
5. 
Henry 
IV, 
Part 
1
, 
in 
Evans 
et 
al., 
The 
Riverside 
Shakespeare
, 
4.1.122–23. 
All 
citations
in 
parentheses 
are 
to 
this 
edition.
6. 
Garber 
uses 
the 
word 
‘‘uncanny’’ 
twice, 
first 
to 
evoke 
how 
the 
play 
anticipates
our 
era’s 
understanding 
of 
the 
political 
grooming 
process, 
and 
second 
to 
describe
the 
‘‘dramatic 
correspondences’’ 
of 
the 
play’s 
doubled 
plot 
lines: 
Garber, 
Shakespeare
after 
All
, 
314, 
317.
7. 
Freud, 
The 
Uncanny
, 
142.
8. 
Poe, 
‘‘William 
Wilson.’’
9. 
From 
the 
great 
canon 
of 
philosophical 
writings 
that 
argue 
for 
the 
priority 
of
sameness 
in 
the 
etiology 
of 
love, 
consider 
Winthrop, 
‘‘A 
Modell 
of 
Christian 
Charity,’’
which 
uses 
two 
same-sex 
biblical 
couples 
(
Jonathan 
and 
David, 
Ruth 
and 
Naomi) 
to
emblematize 
love. 
See 
also 
Shannon, 
Sovereign 
Amity
.
10. 
I 
have 
in 
mind 
Richard 
Rambuss’s 
persuasive 
case 
for 
studying 
what 
he 
calls
‘‘male 
masculinity’’: 
Rambuss, 
‘‘After 
Male 
Sex,’’ 
585.

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