Table of Contents:
  • The subtexts of The roaring girl/ Stephen Orgel
  • Twins and travesties: gender, dependency and sexual availability in Twelfth night/ Lisa Jardine
  • Disruptive desire: artifice and indeterminacy in Jacobean comedy/ Susan Zimmermann
  • Transvestism and the ʹbody beneathʹ: speculating on the boy actor/ Peter Stallybrass
  • Desireʹs excess and the English Renaissance theatre: Edward II, Troilus and Cressida, Othello/ Catherine Belsey
  • ʹLawless desires well temperedʹ/ Kathleen McLuskie
  • Making a difference: male/male ʹdesireʹ in tragedy, comedy and tragi-comedy/ Bruce R. Smith
  • The (in)significance of ʹlesbianʹ desire in early modern England/ Valerie Traub
  • Sex and social conflict: the erotics of The roaring girl/ Jean E. Howard