Table of Contents

Introduction / Jonathan Goldberg
Bowers v. Hardwick in the Renaissance / Janet E. Halley
Homosexuality and the Signs of Male Friendship in Elizabethan England / Alan Bray
The (In)Significance of "Lesbian" Desire in Early Modern England / Valerie Traub
Fraudomy: Reading Sexuality and Politics in Burchiello / Alan K. Smith
Practicing Queer Philology with Marguerite de Navarre: Nationalism and the Castigation of Desire / Carla Freccero
Erasmus's "Tigeress": The Language of Friendship, Pleasure, and the Renaissance Letter / Forrest Tyler Stevens
John Bale and Early Tudor Sodomy Discourse / Donald N. Mager
"To Serve the Queere": Nicholas Udall, Master of Revels / Elizabeth Pittenger
Into Other Arms: Amoret's Evasion / Dorothy Stephens
Romeo and Juliet's Open Rs / Jonathan Goldberg
The Epistemology of Expurgation: Bacon and The Masculine Birth of Time / Graham Hammill
Pleasure and Devotion: The Body of Jesus and Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric / Richard Rambuss
My Two Dads: Collaboration and the Reproduction of Beaumont and Fletcher / Jeff Masten
Fighting Women and Loving Men: Dryden's Representation of Shakespeare in All for Love / Marcie Frank
New English Sodom / Michael Warner
Afterword / Margaret Hunt
Notes on Contributors
Index

About the Author

Jonathan Goldberg is the Sir William Osler Professor of English Literature at the Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Sodometries: Renaissance Texts, Modern Sexualities.

Reviews

"An outstanding collection . . . Not only does it contribute importantly to emerging areas of gay/lesbian studies and the history of sexuality by historicizing what has been for the most part a relentlessly presentist field; it makes significant scholarly contributions to traditional fields in Renaissance studies."—Karen Newman, Brown University