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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung Shakesqueer puts the most exciting queer theorists in conversation with the complete works of William Shakespeare. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 WellIs Marriage Always Already Heterosexual? / Julie Crawford 39 Antony and CleopatraAught an Eunuch Has / Ellis Hanson 48 As You Like ItFortune's Turn / Valerie Rohy 55 Cardenio"Absonant Desire": The Question of Cardenio / Philip Lorenz 62 The Comedy of ErrorsIn 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 Cymbelinedesire vomit emptiness: Cymbeline's Marriage Time / Amanda Berry 89 HamletHamlet's Wounded Name / Lee Edelman 97 Henry IV, Part 1When 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 VScrambling Harry and Sampling Hal / Drew Daniel 121 Henry VI, Part 1"Wounded Alpha Bad Boy Soldier" / Mario Digangi 130 Henry VI, Part 2The Gayest Play Ever / Stephen Guy-Bray 139 Henry VI, Part 3Stay / Cary Howie 146 Julius CaeserThus, Always: Julius Caesar and Abraham Lincoln / Bethany Schneider 152 King JohnQueer Futility: Or, The Life and Death of King John / Kathryn Schwarz 163 King LearLear's Q...
