Table of Contents:
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  • 1. Queer Theory (Without Shakespeare)
  • Why' queer'?
  • Deconstruction and poststructuralism
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Foucault and The History of Sexuality
  • Gay and lesbian scholarship and activism
  • feminist sex wars
  • Women of colour feminism
  • HIV/AIDS activism
  • 1990s: Butler, Sedgwick and `classic' queer theory
  • What's left? Queer theory after the new millennium
  • 2. Homoeroticism in Shakespeare Studies
  • Sodomy
  • Friendship
  • Queer feminism: dildos and tribades
  • Queer Christianity
  • Pedagogy, pederasty and poetic creation
  • 3. Queerness Beyond Homoeroticism
  • Queer heterosexuality
  • Race, empire and colonialism
  • Epistemology and empiricism
  • Queer language and literature: editing, philology, rhetoric
  • History and temporality
  • 4. How Queer Is the Shakespearean Canon?
  • limits of polymorphous perversity: A Midsummer Night's Dream and Venus and Adonis
  • erotic life of racism in The Merchant of Venice and Othello
  • Using Shakespeare: history, memory and futurity in Henry Vand Hamlet
  • 5. Politics of Form: Queer Shakespearean Film
  • Queer aesthetics in Jarman's The Tempest: camp, horror, punk, postmodernism
  • `Intercourse has never occurred in private': Edward II and My Own Private Idaho
  • Not your father's Shakespeare?.