Presentism, Gender, and Sexuality in Shakespeare

Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Presence of the Past; E.Gajowski PART I: THEORETICAL AND POLITICAL FRAMEWORKS Resexing Lady Macbeth's Gender and Ours; B.R.Smith Dated and Outdated: The Present Tense of Feminist Shakespeare Criticism; P.Rackin PART II: MAKING WAR/MAKING HISTORIES 'Mirror[s] of all Christian kings': Hank Cinq and George Deux; E.Gajowski Ventriloquized Sentimentality, or, The Theory and Practice of Women in War; K.Schwarz A Presentist Analysis of Joan, la Pucelle: 'What's past and what's to come she can Descry'; K.Stanton PART III: 'A KISS IS JUST A KISS'/PERFORMATIVITIES 'You'll be the man!': Homophobia and the Present in Performances of Twelfth Night and Romeo and Juliet; A.Kiernander 'My hand is ready, may it do him ease': Shakespeare and the Theatre of Display; M.Mangan 'Through the Eyes of the Present': Screening the Male Homoerotics of Shakespearean Drama; A.G.Patricia Estranging Bedfellows: Early Modern Cinema Today; D.E.Green PART IV: UNCIVIL UNIONS Uncivil Unions; L.Charnes 'A Local Habitation and a Name': Presence, Witnessing, and Queer Marriage in Shakespeare's Romantic Comedies; A.L.Little, Jr. PART V: TEMPORALITIES
Afterword: 'The future in the instant'; K.McLuskie Works Cited Index