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 Contradictions Part I: The Lives of William Shakespeare 2: Lena Cowen Orlin: Shakespeare's Marriage 3: Alan Stewart: The Undocumented Lives of William Shakespeare Part II: Early Modern Women's Lives 4: 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 Plays 7: Wendy Wall: All's Well That Ends Well and Recipe Cultures of Knowledge Part III: Race and Ethnicity in Local and Transnational Contexts 8: 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 Venice 10: Patricia Akhimie: Bruised with Adversity: Reading Race in The Comedy of Errors 11: Emily C. Bartels: Identifying 'the Dane': Gender and Race in Hamlet 12: Jean E. Feerick: The Imperial Graft: Horticulture, Hybridity, and the Art of Mingling Races in Henry V and Cymbeline 13: Ania Loomba: Identities and Bodies in Early Modern Studies Part IV: Sexualities 14: Julie Crawford: Shakespeare. Same Sex. Marriage 15: Kathryn Schwarz: Comedies End in Marriage 16: Will Stockton: The Fierce Urgency of Now: Queer Theory, Presentism, and Romeo and Juliet 17: Melissa E. Sanchez: Impure Resistance: Heteroeroticism, Feminism, and Shakespearean Tragedy 18: Carol Thomas Neely: 'Strange Things in Hand': Perverse Pleasures and Erotic Triangles in The Merry Wives of Windsor 19: William Fisher: 'Stray[ing] lower where the pleasant fountains lie': Cunnilingus in Venus and Adonis and in English Culture, c.1600-1700 20: Karen Raber: Equeer: Human-Equine Erotics in 1 Henry IV Part V: Embodied Worlds, Reconfigured Agencies 21: Elizabeth D. Harvey: Passionate Spirits: Animism and Embodiment in Cymbeline and The Tempest 22: Mario DiGangi: Entangled Agency: The Assassin's Conscience in Richard III and King John 23: Amanda Bailey: Personification and the Political Imagination of A Midsummer Night's Dream 24: Gina Bloom: Time to Cheat: Chess and The Tempest's Performative History of Dynastic Marriage 25: Tobin Siebers: Shakespeare Differently Disabled 26: Vin Nardizzi: Disability Figures in Shakespeare 27: Marjorie Rubright: Incorporating Kate: The Myth of Monolingualism in Shakespeare's Henry the Fifth 28: Ari Friedlander: Roguery and Reproduction in The Winter's Tale 29: Maureen Quilligan: Exit Pursued by a Bear: Staging Animal Bodies in A Winter's Tale Part VI: Textual Production and Reproduction 30: Laurie Maguire: Typographical Embodiment: The Case of etcetera 31: Valerie Wayne: The Gendered Text and Its Labour 32: Jeffrey Masten: Glossing and T*pping: Editing Sexuality, Race, and Gender in Othello Part VII: Cultural Performances Past and Present 33: Kathleen E. McLuskie: A Time for The Merry Wives of Windsor 34: Jennifer Waldron: Dead Likenesses and Sex Machines: Shakespearean Media Theory 35: Evelyn Tribble: Pretty and Apt: Boy Actors, Skill, and Embodiment 36: Holly Dugan: Double Falsehood: Cardenio and the Lost History of Rape 37: Jean E. Howard: Interrupting the Lucrece Effect? The Performance of Rape on the Early Modern Stage 38: Diana E. Henderson: Magic in the Chains: Othello, Omkara, and the Materiality of Gender Across Time and Media 39: Susan Bennett: Precarious Bodies: Romeo and Juliet in Baghdad at the World Shakespeare Festival 40: Lauren Eriks Cline: Becoming Caliban: Monster Methods and Performance Theories 41: Ayanna Thompson and Laura Turchi: Embodiment and the Classroom Performance 42: 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.