Shakespeare / Sex

Jennifer Drouin is the author of Shakespeare in Québec: Nation, Gender, and Adaptation (2014) as well as numerous essays on early modern gender and sexuality and contemporary adaptations of Shakespeare.

• Introduction – Jennifer Drouin (McGill University, Canada)Part I: Heterosexuality and its Perils1. Greensickness and Shakespeare – Jessica C. Murphy (University of Texas, Dallas, USA)2. ‘For me, I am the mistress of my fate’: Lucrece, Rape Culture and Feminist Political Activism – Kay Stanton (California State University, Fullerton, USA)Part II: Intersectional Sex3. Sex/ecology: Madness in Method – Sharon O’Dair (University of Alabama, USA)4. Crip Sexualities and Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure – Allison P. Hobgood (Willamette University, USA)5. Protestantism, Marriage and Asexuality in Shakespeare – Melissa E. Sanchez (University of Pennsylvania, USA)6. Children’s Metamorphoses: Ovid, Shakespeare, Sex and Childhood – Kate Chedgzoy (Newcastle University, UK)7. ‘Live, and Beget a Happy Race of Kings’: Richard III, Race and Homonationalism – Urvashi Chakravarty (University of Toronto, Canada)Part III: Queer Shakespeares8. Sex in the Sonnets: The Boy and Dishonourable Passions of the Past – Goran Stanivukovic (Saint Mary’s University, Canada)9. When Coriolanus was Hot: Reading for Homoeroticism Across Time – Huw Griffiths (University of Sydney, Australia)10. Queer Eye for the Not So Straight Guy: Ocular Excesses and Erotic Gazes in The Two Noble Kinsmen – Jennifer Drouin (McGill University, Canada)Part IV: Trans Shakespeares11. ‘Bless thee Bottom, bless thee! Thou art translated’: Gender Identity and Transformation in Shakespeare – Kathleen E. McLuskie (Shakespeare Institute, UK)12. A Woman’s Prick: Trans Technogenesis in Sonnet 20 – Colby Gordon (Bryn Mawr College, USA)NotesBibliographyIndex