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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment brings together 40 of the most important scholars and intellectuals 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, andposthumanism, 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 comprehensiveoverview of current debates.

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the volume´s forty-three contributors can trace a feminism whose theoretical and historical concerns intersect with other identity-based critical approaches such as queer theory, critical race theory, disability studies, animal studies, and postcolonial studies, as well as historical phenomenology and the new materialism. As this suggests, the volume makes a particularly urgent and timely contribution to our field. Kevin Curran, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900

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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 (CUP, 2002), Desire & Anxiety: Circulations of 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 (2009) and Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture: Emerging Subjects (CUP, 1996). Her current project is Mapping Embodiment in the Early Modern West: A Prehistory of Normality.

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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 (CUP, 2002), Desire & Anxiety: Circulations of Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama (Routledge, 1992; rpt 2014), and most recently Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns (Pennsylvania University Press, 2015). Sheco-edited Gay Shame (2009) and Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture: Emerging Subjects (CUP, 1996). Her current project is Mapping Embodiment in the Early Modern West: A Prehistory of Normality.

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