Presentism, Gender, and Sexuality in Shakespeare

LINDA CHARNES is Professor of English and West European Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, USADOUGLAS E. GREEN is Professor of English and Women's Studies at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, USAADRIAN KIERNANDER is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of New England in New South Wales, AustraliaARTHUR L. LITTLE, JR. is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA MICHAEL MANGAN is Professor of Drama at Exeter University, UK KATE MCLUSKIE is Director of the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford upon Avon, UKANTHONY GUY PATRICIA is a PhD student at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USAPHYLLIS RACKIN is Professor of English Emerita at the University of Pennsylvania, USA KATHRYN SCHWARZ is Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University, USA BRUCE R. SMITH is College Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California, USA KAY STANTON is Professor of English at California State University at Fullerton, USA

• Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Presence of the Past; E.Gajowski PART I: THEORETICAL AND POLITICAL FRAMEWORKS Resexing Lady Macbeth's Gender and Ours; B.R.Smith Dated and Outdated: The Present Tense of Feminist Shakespeare Criticism; P.Rackin PART II: MAKING WAR/MAKING HISTORIES 'Mirror[s] of all Christian kings': Hank Cinq and George Deux; E.Gajowski Ventriloquized Sentimentality, or, The Theory and Practice of Women in War; K.Schwarz A Presentist Analysis of Joan, la Pucelle: 'What's past and what's to come she can Descry'; K.Stanton PART III: 'A KISS IS JUST A KISS'/PERFORMATIVITIES 'You'll be the man!': Homophobia and the Present in Performances of Twelfth Night and Romeo and Juliet; A.Kiernander 'My hand is ready, may it do him ease': Shakespeare and the Theatre of Display; M.Mangan 'Through the Eyes of the Present': Screening the Male Homoerotics of Shakespearean Drama; A.G.Patricia Estranging Bedfellows: Early Modern Cinema Today; D.E.Green PART IV: UNCIVIL UNIONS Uncivil Unions; L.Charnes 'A Local Habitation and a Name': Presence, Witnessing, and Queer Marriage in Shakespeare's Romantic Comedies; A.L.Little, Jr. PART V: TEMPORALITIESAfterword: 'The future in the instant'; K.McLuskie Works Cited Index

'Presentism, Gender, and Sexuality in Shakespeare is an important new contribution to the developing field of Presentist criticism in Shakespeare studies. With contributions from an impressive array of international Shakespeare scholars, Evelyn Gajowski's anthology addresses the very issues most on the minds of my students in recent years gender roles, cross-dressing, homoerotic subtexts, terrorism, and war. I wish I had had this book available earlier to recommend to my students as a resource for coming to grips with these issues in intelligent, accessible, and thoroughly professional essays.' - Hugh Grady, Arcadia University, USA