Presentism, Gender, and Sexuality in Shakespeare

This edited collection of essays by an international group of prominent Shakespeare scholars explores the implications of presentism, the "new kid on the block," theoretically speaking, for issues of sexual orientation and gender in Shakespeare's texts. Its twelve contributions include six essays that foreground sexual orientation and six essays that foreground gender issues. Grouped under three rubrics - Politics/War, Performativities, and Uncivil Unions - the collection also includes a Theoretical Frameworks section with essays by Professor Bruce Smith and Professor Phyllis Rackin and an Afterword by Professor Kathleen McLuskie. The collection offers crucial insights into our present professional, theoretical, political, and social moment, in addition to readings of particular Shakespeare texts. It places feminist and queer theory in dialogue with presentist, historicist, and materialist theory, as well as with each other.