Queering the Renaissance
Queering the Renaissance offers a major reassessment of the field of Renaissance studies. Gathering essays by sixteen critics working within the perspective of gay and lesbian studies, this collection redraws the map of sexuality and gender studies in the Renaissance. Taken together, these essays move beyond limiting notions of identity politics by locating historically forms of same-sex desire that are not organized in terms of modern definitions of homosexual and heterosexual. The presence of contemporary history can be felt throughout the volume, beginning with an investigat
History
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Introduction
Bowers v. Hardwick in the Renaissance
Homosexuality and the Signs of Male Friendship in Elizabethan England
The (In) Significance of "Lesbian" Desire in Early Modern England
Fraudomy: Reading Sexuality and Politics in Burchiello
Practicing Queer Philology with Marguerite de Navarre: Nationalism and the Castigation of Desire
Erasmus's "Tigress": The Language of Friendship, Pleasure, and the Renaissance Letter
John Bale and Early Tudor Sodomy Discourse
"To Serve the Queere": Nicholas Udall, Master of Revels
Into Other Arms: Amoret's Evasion. Romeo and Juliet's Open Rs
The Epistemology of Expurgation: Bacon and The Masculine Birth of Time
Pleasure and Devotion: The Body of Jesus and Seventeenh-Century Religious Lyric
My Two Dads: Collaboration and the Reproduction of Beaumont and Fletcher
Fighting Women and Loving Men: Dryden's Representation of Shakespeare in All for Love
New English Sodom
Afterword
Notes on Contributors
Index