Queering the Renaissance

“[A]n excellent collection. . . [and] a rich and diverse survey of what queer studies and early modern scholarship have to offer each other.” - Canadian Review of Comparative Literature

“Although this text has as a prime concern to acknowledge the place of homosexuality in Renaissance culture, and remap fixed heterosexist norms in drama and poetry, it raises much wider questions regarding identity formation and sexual stereotyping. . . . [It] offers a model of methodological approach which seeks to embrace much wider critical definitions and terminologies than those all too normative assumptions surrounding Renaissance studies.” - Forum for Modern Language Studies

"[C]ontributes significantly to ongoing discussions of Cather, sexuality, and queer reading. . . . [Goldberg] succeeds brilliantly in probing those resonances, as he cuts into a text with the precision of a gifted surgeon. . . . [E]loquent and insightful. . . . [I]lluminating and generous in its analysis of the complicated politics of representation that arise when artists cross racial or ethnic lines." - Marilee Lindemann, Legacy

"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