"This edited collection of essays by an international group of prominent Shakespeare scholars explores the implications of presentism, the 'new kid on the block', theoretically speaking, for issues of sexual orientation and gender in Shakespeare's texts. The collection offers crucial insights into our present professional, theoretical, theatrical, cinematic, political, and social moment, in addition to readings of particular Shakespeare texts. It places feminist and queer theory in dialogue with presentist, historicist, and materialist theory, as well as with each other."--BOOK JACKET.