Queering Early Modern Death in England

Lauren Shohet is Professor of English, Villanova University, USA.Christine Varnado is Associate Professor of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, USA.

• List of FiguresNotes on Contributors 1. Introduction: What's queer about early modern death?Christine Varnado (State University of New York-Buffalo, USA) and Lauren Shohet (Villanova University, USA) 2. (Un-)/Dead again: dying and undying in The Duchess of MalfiPenelope Meyers Usher (Barnard College, USA)3. John Donne and the queer wit of early modern death Miriam Jacobson (University of Georgia, USA)4. How to laugh at death and why (or, “Pyramus and Thisbe” as suicidal camp)Drew Daniel (Johns Hopkins University, USA)5. Queer uses of disease, death, and other crises: a jugaad reading of The AlchemistTripthi Pillai (Coastal Carolina University, USA)6. “Some part of his funerals”: playing the part of the departed in Nicholas Udall’s Roister DoisterJoseph Kidney (Stanford University, USA)7. Surviving Richard IIIJames Y. Mulder (Bentley University, USA)8. Baited bulls and crammed capons: queer animal death in early modern England Karen Raber (University of Mississippi, USA)9. The Queerness of typology Lauren Shohet (Villanova University, USA) 10. Queering the death of the author: temporal multiplicity and Shakespeare’s literary authorshipWolfram Keller (Free University of Berlin, Germany)Afterword: “And is this the end?” “Oh, no, there is no end” Alice Dailey (Villanova University, USA)Index