Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. BOWERS V. HARDWICK in the Renaissance 15
5. Homosexuality and the Signs of Male Friendship in Elizabethan England 40
6. The (In ) Significance of "Lesbian" Desire in Early Modern England 62
7. Fraudomy.· Reading Sexuality and Politics in Burchiello 84
8. Practicing queer philology with Marguerite de Navarre: nationalism and the castigation of desire 107
9. Erasmus's Tigress : the language of Friendship, pleasure and the renaissance letter 124
10. John Bale and Early Tudor sodomy discourse 141
11. "To serve the Queere": Nicholas Udall, master of revels 162
12. Into other arms: Amoret's evasion 190
13. Romeo and Juliet's Open Rs 218
14. The epistemology of expurgation: bacon and the masculine birth of time 236
15. Pleasure and devotion: the body of Jesus and seventeenth-century religious lyric 253
16. My two dads: collaboration and the reproduction of Beaumont and Fletcher 280
17. Fighting women and loving men: Dryden's representation of Shakespeare in all for love 310
18. New English Sodom 330
19. Afterword 359
20. Notes on contributors 379
21. Index 383