Shakes ueer Edited by Michèle Aina Barale, S E I Jonathan Goldberg, Michael Moon, R E S and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Shakes ueer A Queer Companion to the Complete Works of Shakespeare madhavi menon Edited by duke university press durham and london 2011 ∫ 2011 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper $ Designed by Amy Ruth Buchanan Typeset in Monotype Dante by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging- in-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book. contents c Acknowledgments § ix Coriolanus ‘‘Tell Me Not Wherein I Seem Introduction. Queer Shakes Unnatural’’: Queer Meditations madhavi menon § 1 on Coriolanus in the Time of War jason edwards All is True (Henry VIII) § 80 The Unbearable Sex of Cymbeline Henry VIII desire vomit emptiness: steven bruhm § 28 Cymbeline’s Marriage Time amanda berry All’s Well That Ends Well § 89 Or, Is Marriage Always Already Hamlet Heterosexual? julie crawford Hamlet’s Wounded Name § 39 lee edelman § 97 Antony and Cleopatra Henry IV, Part 1 Aught an Eunuch Has ellis hanson When Harry Met Harry § 48 matt bell § 106 As You Like It King Henry IV, Part 2 Fortune’s Turn valerie rohy The Deep Structure of Sexuality: § 55 War and Masochism in Henry IV, Cardenio Part 2 ‘‘Absonant Desire’’: daniel juan gil § 114 The Question of Cardenio philip lorenz § 62 King Henry V Scambling Harry and Sampling Hal The Comedy of Errors drew daniel § 121 In Praise of Error lynne huffer § 72 Henry VI, Part 1 Love’s Labour’s Won ‘‘Wounded Alpha Bad Boy Doctorin’ the Bard: A Contem- Soldier’’ porary Appropriation of Love’s mario digangi § 130 Labour’s Won hector kollias § 194 Henry VI, Part 2 The Gayest Play Ever Macbeth stephen guy-bray § 139 Milk heather love § 201 Henry VI, Part 3 Stay Measure for Measure cary howie § 146 Same-Saint Desire paul morrison § 209 Julius Caesar Thus, Always: Julius Caesar The Merchant of Venice and Abraham Lincoln The Rites of Queer Marriage bethany schneider § 152 in The Merchant of Venice arthur l. little jr. § 216 King John Queer Futility: Or, The Life The Merry Wives of Windsor and Death of King John What Do Women Want? kathryn schwarz jonathan goldberg § 163 § 225 King Lear A Midsummer Night’s Dream Lear’s Queer Cosmos Shakespeare’s Ass Play laurie shannon richard rambuss § 171 § 234 A Lover’s Complaint Much Ado About Nothing Learning How to Love (Again) Closing Ranks, Keeping ashley t. shelden § 179 Company: Marriage Plots and the Will to be Single in Much Ado Love’s Labour’s Lost about Nothing The L Words ann pellegrini § 245 madhavi menon § 187 Othello The Sonnets Othello’s Penis: Or, Islam in Momma’s Boys aranye fradenburg the Closet § 319 daniel boyarin § 254 Speech Therapy Pericles barbara johnson § 328 ‘‘Curious Pleasures’’: Pericles More Life: Shakespeare’s Sonnet beyond the Civility of Union patrick o’malley Machines § 263 julian yates § 333 The Phoenix and the Turtle The Taming of the Shrew Number There in Love Latin Lovers in The Taming of Was Slain karl steel the Shrew § 271 bruce smith § 343 The Rape of Lucrece The Tempest Desire My Pilot Is peter coviello Forgetting The Tempest § 278 kevin ohi § 351 Richard II Timon of Athens Pretty Richard (in Three Parts) judith brown Skepticism, Sovereignty, Sodomy § 286 james kuzner § 361 Richard III Titus Andronicus Fuck the Disabled: The Prequel robert mcruer A Child’s Garden of Atrocities § 294 michael moon § 369 Romeo and Juliet Troilus and Cressida Romeo and Juliet Love Death carla freccero The Leather Men and the Lovely § 302 Boy: Reading Positions in Troilus Sir Thomas More and Cressida alan sinfield More or Less Queer § 376 jeffrey masten § 309 Twelfth Night Is There an Audience for My Play? sharon holland § 385 The Two Gentlemen of Verona Pageboy, or, The Two Gentlemen from Verona: The Movie amy villarejo § 394 The Two Noble Kinsmen Philadelphia, or, War jody greene § 404 Venus and Adonis Venus and Adonis Frieze andrew nicholls § 414 The Winter’s Tale Lost, or ‘‘Exit, Pursued by a Bear’’: Causing Queer Children on Shakespeare’s tv kathryn bond stockton § 421 References § 429 Further Reading § 449 Contributors § 467 Index § 477 acknowledgments c This book has been a labor of love that has accrued various and immense debts. It is my pleasure to record them here. At American University, I would like to thank, first, my students. The idea for Shakesqueer was born as an idea for a class in which I could more fully inte- grate Shakespeare and queer theory. My colleagues Keith Leonard, Mandy Berry, Richard Sha, Despina Kakoudaki, Linda Voris, and Richard McCann have helped this project along pleasurably and immeasurably. And the Dean’s o≈ce of the College of Arts and Sciences—especially Kay Mussell, Peter Starr, and Thomas Husted—gave me several grants that allowed me to complete the work on this volume. Also at American University, I have had the help of the incomparable Melissa Yinger, who has been my research assistant and general factotum for this volume. Thanks also to Jessie Rutland, Tara Schupner, and Cathy John- son for providing formatting services in many tense situations! I would like to register my deep thanks to Ken Wissoker at Duke Univer- sity Press for his intelligent skepticism and earnest enthusiasm. Without his suggestions, this book would not be as strong. The two anonymous readers, who read both the prospectus and the finished product, were astonishing in the acuity and generosity of their suggestions. They will see several of those suggestions manifested in the pages that follow. My thanks to them for their insights. Also at Duke, I had the good fortune of landing Mandy Earley as my editor during the early part of assembling this book, and Mark Mastromarino during the later stages. They have both been patient, good-humored, and encyclo- pedic in their knowledge, which is more than anyone can ask for from one’s editors. Scott Smiley has made the index as exciting as the volume, and for that amazing feat, I thank him. Ellis Hanson and the English Department at Cornell University held a conference based on the volume that brought many of the contributors face- to-face with one another for the first time. It was a queer couple of days in