Sexuality and Memory in Early Modern England

Introduction John Garrison and Kyle Pivetti Part I. The Classics and Memories of Troy 1. The Will and Testamentary Eroticism in Shakespearean Drama Douglas Clark 2. Paris, Oenone, and the Trojan War Joyce Greene MacDonald 3. Marlowe's Helen: The Pagan Body as Site of Erotic Cultural Memory John Garrison Part II. Memorializing Sensuality in the Sonnets 4. Remembering to Forget Stephen Guy-Bray 5. 'Despised straight': Shakespeare's Discovery of Semantic Memory Bias Ian MacInnes Part III. The Body as a Site of Erotic Memory 6. False Muscle Memory: Sexual Experience in Marlowe and Nashe Robert Darcy 7. 'The monument woos me': Eroticizing the Dead in Thomas Middleton's The Lady's Tragedy Heather Wicks 8. Dying to Please: Distraction, Death, and the Eroticism of Forgetting in Antony and Cleopatra Jonathan Baldo Part IV. Sexual Trauma and Political History 9. Between Election and Hope: Political Ecstasy in Hamlet Amanda Bailey 10. Exemplarity and its Discontents in Michael Drayton's Englands Heroical Epistles Andrew Fleck 11. 'The stage is down, and Philomela's choir is hushed from pricksong': Revising and (Re)membering in Middleton's The Ghost of Lucrece Dee Anna Phares Part V. Spenser and the Art of Erotic Memory 12. Desiring Memory in Spenser's Amoretti and The Faerie Queene Kyle Pivetti 13. Spenser's Erotic Refusals Su Fang Ng 14. The Gallery of Erotic Memory in The Faerie Queene Goran Stanivukovic 15. Guinevere's Ghost Kenneth Hodges Afterword Garrett A. Sullivan