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

This collection of essays interrogates the relationship between Shakespeare and sex, challenging readers to consider Shakespeare’s texts in light of the most recent theoretical approaches to gender and sexuality studies.

Published in association with the London Shakespeare Centre at King’s College London, this series sets the future agenda for Shakespeare research and criticism. Each edited volume examines a Shakespearean intersection that has been chosen to encourage inventive reflections, suggestions for future directions for the field and critical engagements of a broad interdisciplinary nature.