"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

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

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.