The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment: Gender, Sexuality, and Race

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment brings together 42 of the most important scholars and writing on the subject today. Extending the purview of feminist criticism, it offers an intersectional paradigm for considering representations of gender in the context of race, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, and religion. In addition to sophisticated textual analysis drawing on the methods of historicism, psychoanalysis, queer theory, and posthumanism, a team of international experts discuss Shakespeare’s life, contemporary editing practices, and performance of his plays on stage, on screen, and in the classroom. This theoretically sophisticated yet elegantly written Handbook includes an editor’s Introduction that provides a comprehensive overview of current debates.

Valerie Traub, Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of English and Women’s Studies, University of Michigan

Valerie Traub is the Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of English and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan and an award winning author and teacher. She is the author of The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England (Cambridge University Press, 2002), Desire & Anxiety: Circulationsof Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama (Routledge, 1992; rpt 2014), and most recently Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns (Pennsylvania University Press, 2015). She co-edited Gay Shame (University of Chicago Press, 2009) and Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture: Emerging Subjects (Cambridge University Press, 1996). Her current project is Mapping Embodiment in the Early Modern West: A Prehistory of Normality.