The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment

Valerie Traub is the Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan and an award winning author and teacher. She is the author of The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England (Cambridge University Press, 2002), Desire & Anxiety: Circulations of Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama (Routledge, 1992; rpt 2014), and most recently Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns (Pennsylvania University Press, 2015). She co-edited Gay Shame (University of Chicago Press, 2009) and Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture: Emerging Subjects (Cambridge University Press, 1996). Her current project is Mapping Embodiment in the Early Modern West: A Prehistory of Normality.

• 1: Valerie Traub: Introduction: Feminist Shakespeare Studies: Cross Currents, Border Crossings, Conflicts, and ContradictionsPart I: The Lives of William Shakespeare2: Lena Cowen Orlin: Shakespeare's Marriage3: Alan Stewart: The Undocumented Lives of William ShakespearePart II: Early Modern Women's Lives4: Bernadette Andrea: Amazons, Turks, and Tartars in the Gesta Grayorum and The Comedy of Errors 5: Stephen Spiess: Puzzling Embodiment: Proclamation, La Pucelle, and The first Part of Henry VI'6: Susan Frye: Spectres of Female Sovereignty in Shakespeare's Plays7: Wendy Wall: All's Well That Ends Well and Recipe Cultures of KnowledgePart III: Race and Ethnicity in Local and Transnational Contexts8: M. Lindsay Kaplan: Constructing the Inferior Body: Medieval Theology in The Merchant of Venice 9: Ian Smith: The Textile Black Body: Race and 'shadowed livery' in The Merchant of Venice10: Patricia Akhimie: Bruised with Adversity: Reading Race in The Comedy of Errors11: Emily C. Bartels: Identifying 'the Dane': Gender and Race in Hamlet12: Jean E. Feerick: The Imperial Graft: Horticulture, Hybridity, and the Art of Mingling Races in Henry V and Cymbeline13: Ania Loomba: Identities and Bodies in Early Modern StudiesPart IV: Sexualities14: Julie Crawford: Shakespeare. Same Sex. Marriage15: Kathryn Schwarz: Comedies End in Marriage16: Will Stockton: The Fierce Urgency of Now: Queer Theory, Presentism, and Romeo and Juliet17: Melissa E. Sanchez: Impure Resistance: Heteroeroticism, Feminism, and Shakespearean Tragedy18: Carol Thomas Neely: 'Strange Things in Hand': Perverse Pleasures and Erotic Triangles in The Merry Wives of Windsor19: William Fisher: 'Stray[ing] lower where the pleasant fountains lie': Cunnilingus in Venus and Adonis and in English Culture, c.1600-170020: Karen Raber: Equeer: Human-Equine Erotics in 1 Henry IVPart V: Embodied Worlds, Reconfigured Agencies21: Elizabeth D. Harvey: Passionate Spirits: Animism and Embodiment in Cymbeline and The Tempest22: Mario DiGangi: Entangled Agency: The Assassin's Conscience in Richard III and King John23: Amanda Bailey: Personification and the Political Imagination of A Midsummer Night's Dream24: Gina Bloom: Time to Cheat: Chess and The Tempest's Performative History of Dynastic Marriage25: Tobin Siebers: Shakespeare Differently Disabled26: Vin Nardizzi: Disability Figures in Shakespeare27: Marjorie Rubright: Incorporating Kate: The Myth of Monolingualism in Shakespeare's Henry the Fifth28: Ari Friedlander: Roguery and Reproduction in The Winter's Tale29: Maureen Quilligan: Exit Pursued by a Bear: Staging Animal Bodies in A Winter's TalePart VI: Textual Production and Reproduction30: Laurie Maguire: Typographical Embodiment: The Case of etcetera31: Valerie Wayne: The Gendered Text and Its Labour32: Jeffrey Masten: Glossing and T*pping: Editing Sexuality, Race, and Gender in OthelloPart VII: Cultural Performances Past and Present33: Kathleen E. McLuskie: A Time for The Merry Wives of Windsor34: Jennifer Waldron: Dead Likenesses and Sex Machines: Shakespearean Media Theory35: Evelyn Tribble: Pretty and Apt: Boy Actors, Skill, and Embodiment36: Holly Dugan: Double Falsehood: Cardenio and the Lost History of Rape37: Jean E. Howard: Interrupting the Lucrece Effect? The Performance of Rape on the Early Modern Stage38: Diana E. Henderson: Magic in the Chains: Othello, Omkara, and the Materiality of Gender Across Time and Media39: Susan Bennett: Precarious Bodies: Romeo and Juliet in Baghdad at the World Shakespeare Festival40: Lauren Eriks Cline: Becoming Caliban: Monster Methods and Performance Theories41: Ayanna Thompson and Laura Turchi: Embodiment and the Classroom Performance42: Denise Albanese: Feeling Shakespeare

the volume's forty-three contributors can trace a feminism whose theoretical and historical concerns intersect with other identity-based critical approaches such as queer theory, critical race theory, disability studies, animal studies, and postcolonial studies, as well as historical phenomenology and the new materialism. As this suggests, the volume makes a particularly urgent and timely contribution to our field.