Index

Adonis, 64, 282n18

acts, erotic, 3, 5, 7–8, 31, 88, 148, 154, 168, 184. See also sex

Adorno, Theodor W., 130

aesthetics, 25, 28, 42–43, 63, 82, 105–6, 108–9, 116–17, 136–38, 149, 257, 262–63; bourgeois norms of, 290n51; production of, 16, 55–56, 110–11; queer potential of, 33–34, 82, 118, 205, 259–60

affect, 5–9, 71, 77, 79, 207, 254, 259; negative, 9, 44–46, 129, 148, 188, 200, 208; queer, 20, 105, 150, 208, 228

affective exchange/transmission, 25, 41, 54, 56, 66, 69, 204

affective mode, 99–100, 156–57, 208–9

agency, 9; erotic, 86; gendered, 211; political, 19

animacy/animation/animate, 6, 9, 37, 64, 95, 111, 119, 124, 138, 139, 157, 161, 179, 194, 204, 220, 253

AIDS, 19, 292n72, 294n4

Alchemist, The (Jonson), 124–25

alchemy, 124, 126

Algonkians, 47, 201, 208, 223, 225, 226, 228, 231, 233, 245, 246, 248, 251; culture of, 238, 239, 240; Englishmen and, 227, 229, 232, 236, 237, 241

alloerotic desire, 14, 106, 142

alterity, 26–27, 205–6, 214, 242, 256, 261. See also difference; identification

anachronism, 12–13, 34, 211

androgyny, 59, 87

Andrzejewski, Alicia, 109

Anne of Denmark, 162, 165, 298n49, 300n60

annihilation, 19, 102, 134, 212, 233, 235–36, 261

Antipodes, The (Brome), 17, 19, 32, 34, 39, 40, 41, 53, 86, 87, 256; cure in, 25; queer temporality and, 27–28; reading, 22, 27; resolution of, 38

antisocial desire, 14, 19, 42, 125, 154, 172, 194–95, 275n55, 300n65

Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare), 203

anxiety, 12–13, 38, 66, 119, 196, 214, 295n14; colonial, 202, 234

Arethusa, 41, 51, 63, 66–67, 280n4; Bellario and, 67–68, 83, 99; Philaster and, 54, 57, 60, 61, 62, 64, 65, 69, 71, 96, 97–98

Argonauts, The, 11

As You Like It (Shakespeare), 48, 98, 279n107

Aubrey, John, 53, 111

autoeroticism, 23, 103, 108, 111, 113, 122, 135

Banks, Cuddy, 177, 179, 180, 181, 183, 301n71; Dog and, 186, 302n72, 302n75; woodcut of, 180 (fig.)

Banquo, 233, 235, 241

Barbara, 37, 38, 40, 87–88

Barnfield, Richard, 281n7

Barthes, Roland, 21, 22

Bartholomew Fair (Jonson), 42, 101–2, 118, 126, 142, 168, 292n72; desire and, 104, 119–20, 140; erotic economy of, 1–2, 126–28, 138; fancy and, 119–20; plots of, 1–2, 127

Bartholomew pig, 126, 129–33, 168

Beaumont, Francis, 2, 41, 51, 53, 54, 63, 65, 67, 95, 111, 248, 280nn1–2

Bellario/Euphrasia, 41, 52, 60, 65–66, 75, 80, 86, 87, 145; as communications device, 54, 57, 98, 100, 280n1; garland of, 55–56, 84, 89, 100; gender of, 57, 58, 68, 69–70, 95–96; Moll and, 72, 81

Berger, Jesse, 302n79

Berlant, Lauren, 7, 19

Bersani, Leo, 19, 42, 222, 223, 236

Best, George, 309n92

Bhabha, Homi, 48, 206–7, 228, 254, 304n19

bigamy, 174, 179, 182–83, 190, 193, 196–97; plot, 46–47, 172, 175, 184; as sexual status, 181, 188; witchcraft and, 184, 191. See also marriage

Billy Budd (Melville), 45

bisexuality, 76, 82, 83, 181

Black Skin, White Masks (Fanon), 206

bodies: communal/body politic, 160, 165; material things and, 9, 15, 17, 24, 82, 228; natural, 9, 42, 76, 84–85, 89, 100

Bodin, Jean, 297n43, 308n69

Brantley, Ben, 115

Bray, Alan, 7–8

Brayman, Heidi, 276n67

Brennan, Teresa, 6

Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia, A (Harriot), 47, 200–204, 210, 212, 223, 224, 225, 227, 228, 229, 234, 236, 240–41, 244, 245, 248

Briggs, Robin, 299n54

Brome, Richard, 22, 24, 33, 34, 35, 53, 86, 161, 256, 293n1

Bromley, James, 75, 82, 277n79

Brooks, Peter, 6, 155, 272n12

Busy, Zeal-of-the-Land, 1–2, 23, 42, 102, 120, 121, 127, 128, 134, 137–38, 140–41, 168; negative affect of, 129, 133, 140; passive smelling and, 130–31

Butler, Judith, 215, 254, 255

Callaghan, Dympna, 144

camp, 21, 63, 64, 137, 216

cannibalism, 136, 213, 300n58, 312n144

Capital (Marx), 124

capitalism, 5, 43, 123–24, 136, 236, 263; disaster, 258; neoliberal, 28

Carmichael, James, 163, 294n10

Cartas de relación (Cortés), 204

cathexis, 103, 106, 115, 118, 304n14, 306n31

Catholicism, 161, 201, 213, 225, 292n66

Chambers, E. K., 300n62

Chapman, George, 124, 135

Cheek By Jowl, 114

Chen, Mel Y., 9

Cheng, Ann Anllin, 254

Chesapeake people, 246, 250, 251

Chess, Simone, 72, 283n28, 283n36

“chieff Ladye of Pomeiooc. VIII, A,” 240 (fig.)

“Choise of Valentines, The” (Nashe), 285n58

Christianity, 213–14, 225, 248

citizenship, 95, 252, 259, 305n26

Claggart, John, 45

Clarington, Arthur, 173, 174, 185, 189

class, 26, 70, 92–93, 135, 148, 150–51, 173, 262–63

codpiece, 82, 84, 85

Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome, 274n23

Cohn, Roy, 45

Cokes, Bartholomew, 1, 23, 42, 43, 101–2, 124, 126–27, 134, 138–39, 142; marriage of, 120–21; polymorphous perversity and, 126, 135; puppets and, 139, 140; wedding fancy of, 136

collusion, 155, 156, 170, 179

colonialism, 5, 119, 199, 208, 212, 244, 251, 252; Protestant, 43–44, 203; settler, 209, 234; structure of, 207

Columbus, 204, 304n12

Comensoli, Viviana, 300n65

Cortés, Hernan, 204, 304n12

Cosmographie universelle (Thevet), 217

Cotten, Sallie Southall, 248, 250, 253

cross-dressing, 60, 91–92, 97, 98; polemic against, 75; scholarship on, 54, 58, 72–73, 77

Crucible, The (Miller), 147

Cunningham, John. See Fian, Doctor

cutpurse, 137, 138

Cutpurse, Moll. See Frith, Mary (Moll)

Cvetkovich, Ann, 7, 19

Daemonologie (James VI and I), 168

Dare, Virginia, 234, 247, 248–50, 252, 253

David (Michelangelo), 252

Dawson, Anthony, 300n65

De Bry, Theodor, 202, 236, 237, 238, 240, 241, 244

Dekker, Thomas, 41, 45, 51, 70, 147, 171

Deleuze, Gilles, 6, 10, 226, 291n55

demonology, 160, 177, 299n53–55, 299nn57–58, 302n75

depressive position, 38, 260, 263

Derrida, Jacques, 28, 113

“Des cannibales” (Montaigne), 213

desire, 3, 5, 8, 9, 12, 17, 22–23, 29, 41, 68–69, 81, 106, 111, 113, 115, 133–38, 140, 150, 155, 176, 180, 208, 222, 229, 260, 261, 264; bottomless, 2, 101–2, 104, 120, 127; colonial, 48, 199, 202, 204, 205, 206, 207, 211, 228, 254; commodity, 119, 122–23, 135–36; heteroerotic, 53, 114; homoerotic, 3, 10, 100, 104, 113, 114, 205, 215, 307n46; identification and, 26; melancholic, 215–16; narrative, 6, 107; nonnormative, 8, 79; objects of, 13, 132, 141; projection and, 4, 147, 157, 178, 184, 207, 224, 296n30

development, narratives of: capitalist, 28; colonial, 27, 241; historical, 32; psychosexual, 9, 13–14, 28, 32, 110, 145, 215

devil, 45, 152, 153, 154, 159, 168, 169, 170, 171, 189, 190, 195; gathering with, 165–66; James VI and, 299n57; sexual congress with, 167

difference: colonial representations of, 204–5, 238; historical, 27, 49, 205–6, 261. See also sexual difference

DiGangi, Mario, 267, 281n12

Dimock, Wai Chee, 15, 19, 31, 43, 264–65

Dinshaw, Carolyn, 21, 74, 277n79, 277n81

discipline, social, 3, 4, 5, 57, 106, 149, 158

Divers Voyages Touching the Discoverie of America and the llands Adjacent unto the Same, Made First of All by Our Englishmen and Afterwards by the Frenchmen and Britons: With Two Mappes Annexed Hereunto (Hakluyt), 203

Doctor Faustus (Marlowe), 300n62

Dog, 179, 180, 180 (fig.), 183, 184, 185–86, 194, 301n71, 302n72, 302nn75–76

Dolan, Frances, 151

Dollimore, Jonathan, 13–14

dominance, 52, 62, 149, 276n6. See also submission

Donnellan, Declan, 114

Douglas, Alfred (Bosie), 290n46, 307n46

Douglas, John, ninth marquess of Queensberry, 290n46

Drake, Francis, 201, 237, 250, 251

Duncane, Geillis, 150, 151, 152, 157–58, 159, 161, 162, 163, 168, 169, 172–73, 191; interrogation of, 160; performance by, 176

Eastward Ho! (Chapman, Jonson, and Marston), 124, 135

Edelman, Lee, 19, 224, 236, 277n79, 277n81

Edinburgh, 45, 159, 191, 193

“Editing Boys” (Masten), 282n20

Elam, Keir, 24

Elizabeth, Queen, 247

empiricism, 206, 258, 259, 260

Epicoene, or The Silent Woman (Jonson), 68, 282n23

Epistemology of the Closet (Sedgwick), 10–11, 29

eros, 12–13, 17, 64, 105, 108, 150

erotic, 53, 81, 88, 93, 95, 99, 100, 110, 238; category of, 41

eroticism, queer, 45, 88, 103, 105, 210–11

Essais (Montaigne), 219, 288n18

Ethics (Spinoza), 6

Fabian, Johannes, 27

Fair, 1, 42, 101, 120, 121, 122–23, 128, 132–34, 136, 137, 138; erotic economy of, 131, 139–40

fancy: definition of, 116–18, 136–38; fetish and, 118–19; forms of, 33, 143; love and, 106–8; polymorphous, 126; production/reproduction of, 142; promiscuous, 101, 120; queer play of, 106, 287n5

fancy Dan, 117

fancy-girl, 117

fancy-man/fancy-woman, 118

fancy-piece, 117

fancy-sick, 106

Fanon, Frantz, 48, 204, 206, 207, 254

fantasy, 40, 85, 87, 91, 105, 163, 187, 207, 260; European, 202; homoerotic, 209, 236; paranoid, 165; persecutory, 175–76; queer, 201, 223

Faulkner, William, 30

Felman, Shoshana, 24, 272n12

Felski, Rita, 263–64

femininity, 91, 92, 115

Ferguson, Roderick A., 277n81

fetish, 91, 128, 133, 134, 153, 229, 312n135

Fian, Doctor (John Cunningham), 191–96, 294n5

Ficino, Marsilio, 129, 291n58

Fisher, Will, 72, 274n25, 277n79

Fitz-Allard, Mary, 70, 80, 85–86, 88–89, 91–92

Fletcher, John, 2, 41, 51, 53, 54, 63, 65, 67, 95, 111, 203, 248, 280nn1–2, 281n5

Ford, John, 45, 147, 171, 172

Foucault, Michel, 5, 14, 29, 149, 150

Fradenburg, Louise (L. O. Aranye), 205, 277n78

Frankenstein (Shelley), 248

Freccero, Carla, 205, 213, 215, 222, 277nn78–79, 277n81; on heteronormativity, 5; queer historiography and, 305n24

Freeman, Elizabeth, 13, 30, 277n81

Freud, Sigmund, 13, 14, 42, 81, 109, 110, 112, 157, 210, 212, 216; fetish and, 118; Hamlet and, 275n41; melancholy and, 215; narcissism and, 306n35; repetition-compulsion and, 308n61

Friend, The (Bray), 8

Frith, Mary (Moll), 41, 52, 58, 70, 77, 79, 87, 89; celebrity of, 74; garments of, 71, 81–83, 84–85, 91–92; genderqueerness of, 75–76, 82, 92, 95; Oedipal plot and, 80; queerness of, 71, 74, 81, 91, 92–93, 97; viol and, 88, 89, 100

Frobisher, Martin, 309n92

future: colonial, 48, 200, 210–11, 212, 242–46, 250; refusal of, 28, 211; reproductive, 142, 165, 224, 233, 250; speculative/undecided, 17, 27, 223–24, 229–31, 233–34, 242. See also past; present

Gallathea (Lyly), 53, 282n23

garland, 55, 56, 57, 63, 89, 100

garments, 72, 114; masculine, 86, 93; phallic, 89

Gaslight (film), 302n73

Geertz, Clifford, 27

gender, 3, 12, 26, 58, 94, 116, 119, 145, 150, 154, 173, 205, 262; binary, 72, 254; performance of, 84

gender reveal, 59, 69–70, 91

genderqueer, 41, 75, 86, 95, 279n107

genealogy, 231, 254; queer, 48, 116, 241

generation, 33, 109; asexual, 32, 43, 105–6, 233–34, 236; sexual, 106–7, 108

genitals, 8, 13, 39, 81, 100, 119, 140, 141, 164; eroticism and, 14

genocide, 209, 231, 235

Girard, René, 103

God, 161, 229, 299n53

Goldberg, Jonathan, 30, 224, 227–28, 231, 278n90, 290n48

Goodcole, Henry, 171, 176, 179–80, 301n65

Gordon, Colby, 76

Gowing, Laura, 151

Greenblatt, Stephen, 27, 94, 95, 231, 235, 277n76, 304n12

Greene, Roland, 203

Grenville, Richard, 201, 237, 251

Guattari, Félix, 6, 10, 126, 291n55

Guy-Bray, Stephen, 277n79

Hakluyt, Richard, 203, 237, 244

Halberstam, Jack, 19, 28, 73, 211, 277n81

Halperin, David, 29

Hamlet (Shakespeare), 275n41

Harkin, Michael, 249, 250

Harriot, Thomas, 47, 48, 201, 202, 203, 204, 209, 212, 223, 224, 226, 228–29, 231–33, 234, 237, 239, 244–45, 248, 253, 254, 255, 261

Harris, Jonathan Gil, 291n63

Henry II, 203, 220

heteroeroticism, 42, 114, 115

heteronormativity, 5, 28, 30–31, 92, 93, 116, 205

heterosexuality, 18, 20, 66, 71, 84, 92, 96, 97, 104, 115, 120, 209, 212, 242, 254, 255

Heywood, Thomas, 293n1

Hic Mulier. Or, The Man-Woman, 75, 81

Highsmith, Patricia, 236

Histoire d’un voyage faict en la terre du Brésil (Léry), 47, 199, 200, 203, 211, 212, 217, 219, 220

historicism, 19, 27, 31, 258, 277n79, 283n35

historiography, 16, 20, 30–31, 205, 250

history, 17, 64, 74, 148, 234, 249, 256, 259

History of Sexuality, Part I (Foucault), 14

Hoang, Ngyuen Tan, 277n81

Hocquenghem, Guy, 158, 255

Holland, Sharon Patricia, 254

homonationalism, 45, 209

homophobia, 30–31, 45, 91, 130, 131, 148, 158, 168, 254, 255, 280n114; patriarchy and, 78–80; witch hunts and, 197

homosexuality, 29, 30, 46, 117, 130, 156, 236, 306n31, 306n35; paranoia and, 158

homosociality, 12, 66, 95, 100, 219, 232

Horkheimer, Max, 130

House Un-American Activities Committee, 46, 159

Ibn Sina (Avicenna), 291n58

identification, 33, 47, 150, 204, 208, 214, 219, 238, 242, 245, 256, 260; alterity and, 27, 205, 214, 238, 254; colonial, 205, 207, 209, 219; desire and, 26, 206; erotic, 222; foreclosed/ impossible, 210–11, 254; readerly, 21, 48. See also alterity; difference

identity, 8, 74, 144, 201, 214, 255; erotic, 47, 80, 81; gender, 29, 52; markers, 11–12; queer, 7, 42, 305n26; sexual, 29, 30, 52, 100, 111, 140, 153, 172

Identity Evropa, 252

ideology, 5, 6, 33, 105, 141, 206

“Idol Kiwasa, The,” 240

instrumentality, 12, 52–53, 77, 220, 261; erotic, 66, 70, 88, 89, 99, 100

interpretation, 12, 14, 16, 17, 48–49, 256, 264

intertextuality, 21, 22, 24, 25

inversion, 17, 28, 33, 35, 40, 246, 304n14

Inwardness and Theater (Maus), 282n22

Iser, Wolfgang, 21, 24

Island Princess, The (Fletcher), 203

Jackson, Earl, Jr., 306n35

Jagose, Annemarie, 277n81

James VI (James I), 45, 153, 162, 165, 168, 185, 192, 195–96, 241; court theatricals and, 137; witches and, 170–71

Jamestown, 244, 245, 246

Jauss, Hans, 25

Jew of Malta, The (Marlowe), 124

Jews, 130, 159, 300n58

Jonson, Ben, 1, 34, 42, 68, 101, 124, 125, 135, 140, 290n52; court masques of, 137

Joseph, Abigail, 280n1

Joy, Eileen, 274n23

Kemp, Sawyer K., 34, 72

kinship, 35, 81, 144, 231, 233, 242, 250, 305n26; queer, 109, 235

Klein, Melanie, 46, 157, 165, 259–60; demonology and, 160–61

Klein, Naomi, 257–58

Kristeva, Julia, 21, 154, 155, 296n19

Lane, Ralph, 250, 251

Laqueur, Thomas, 94

Late Lancashire Witches, The (Brome), 161

Latour, Bruno, 27, 30, 31, 81, 261, 277n80

Le Moyne, Jacques, 238

Leatherhead, Lantern, 121, 123, 127, 128, 134, 136, 137, 139, 142

Léry, Jean de, 48, 199–200, 204, 209, 212–20, 225, 238, 244, 251, 253, 254, 255, 261; Brazil and, 44, 47, 219; desire and, 222; dispossession and, 210; Tupinamba and, 211, 212, 220, 223

Letoy, 32, 33, 34, 35, 38

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 212

Levine, Laura, 293n75, 295n14

Levy-Navarro, Elena, 290n51

Limits of Critique, The (Felski), 264

literary criticism, 6, 49, 107, 262

literary studies, 12, 16, 20, 30, 31, 258, 264–65

literature, 25, 26, 260, 261–62, 265; pamphlet, 75, 147, 163, 176; travel, 22–23, 202–3, 204–5; witch hunt, 147–49, 155, 159, 160, 161, 163, 171, 176–77

Littlewit, John, 120, 121, 129, 138–39, 142

Littlewit, Win, 121, 126, 127, 139

Litvak, Joseph, 130, 275n39

Love, Heather, 7, 15, 19, 28, 211, 277n79

love objects, 218, 255

Lyly, John, 53, 282n23

Macbeth, Lady, 234

Macbeth (Shakespeare), 34, 162, 241; fair/foul and, 133; reproduction in, 232, 233, 234–35

MacCalzean, Euphame, 298n50

Macduff, 232, 234

Machumps, 246

magic, 124, 126, 165

maleficium, 164, 166, 177, 186

Malleus Maleficarum (Kramer), 295n11

Malvolio, 102, 104, 115–16, 118–19, 144

Mammon, Sir Epicure, 124–25, 136

man-midwife, 23

Mandeville, John, 26, 37

Mannerism, 238

Manteo, 251

Margajas, 219–20

Marlowe, Christopher, 124, 156, 300n62

marriage, 10, 18, 43, 52, 91–92, 120–21, 127, 144, 165, 197; consummation of, 39, 88; refusal of, 83; same-sex, 93; secret, 173. See also bigamy

Marston, John, 124, 135

Martha, 36, 37, 86, 87, 88

Marx, Karl, 124, 157

Marxism, 123, 258

masculine-feminine, 75, 76, 77, 79

masculinity, 95, 105; female, 92, 284n43; heteronormative, 67; homosexual, 117; prosthetic, 85; queer, 73

masochism, 107, 116, 127, 134, 222–23. See also sadism

Masque of Blackness (Jonson), 203

Massumi, Brian, 6

Masten, Jeffrey, 58, 277n79, 282n20

Matar, Nabil, 303n9

material objects, 9, 17, 82, 297n41

materiality, 85, 123, 129, 258

Maus, Eisaman, 282n22

McCarthy, Joseph, 45, 46, 159

McCarthyism, 130, 156, 280n114

melancholia, 12, 48, 207, 208, 219, 251; colonial, 211, 234, 236, 244, 245; gender, 255; love objects and, 212, 216, 218; queer plot of, 209–17; queer temporality of, 210–11; racial, 244, 245, 254; style of, 200, 211, 212; white settler, 247–48, 252–53

Melville, Herman, 45

Menon, Madhavi, 277n79, 278n90

Mentz, Stephen, 274n23

Michelangelo, 252

Middleton, Thomas, 41, 51, 70

Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (Shakespeare), 106, 109

Millar, Charlotte-Rose, 155, 176

modernity, 14, 30, 278n98

Monkman, Kent, 305n26

monogamy, 35, 38, 87, 190, 197

Montaigne, 93, 94, 95, 114, 213, 219, 255; mother’s fancy and, 288n18

“Mourning and Melancholia” (Freud), 210, 212

Muñoz, José Esteban, 20

murder, 47, 172, 193, 236, 296n30

Muslims, 159, 251, 252, 303n9

narcissism, 205, 211, 227, 304n14, 306n31, 306n35; colonial, 206–7, 228

Nardizzi, Vin, 274n23, 277n79

Nashe, Thomas, 285n58

nationalism, 44; white, 252, 253

Native Americans, 4, 44, 208, 211, 213, 227, 229, 247, 248, 309n92, 311n124; kinship structures of, 250, 305n26; political conflicts, 219–20, 246; representations of, 216, 220–22, 238, 239, 240

Nealon, Christopher, 277n81

necromancy, 45, 124, 164

Nelson, Maggie, 11, 285n52

Neoplatonism, 291n58

New Historicism, 27, 94–95, 206

Newes from Scotland, 45, 150–57, 161–62, 163–64, 168, 170, 172, 191, 192, 193, 196; woodcut illustration from, 167 (fig.)

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 157

nonsexual, 117; sexual and, 13

Normand, Lawrence, 155, 156, 163

norms, early modern sexual, 3, 14, 18–19, 35, 39, 64, 110, 145, 191

North Berwick kirk, 162, 166, 168, 191

nostalgia, 211, 245, 247, 252

“Notes on Camp” (Sontag), 63

Novel Gazing: Queer Readings in Fiction (Sedgwick), 257

Numps, 122, 123, 135

Oberg, Michael Leroy, 246, 250

object-choice, 119, 211, 306n31

objectification, 77, 86, 182

Oedipal, 13, 80, 234, 306n31

Olivia, 60, 103–4, 111–12, 113–14, 115, 145

Orgel, Stephen, 282n24

Orsino, Duke, 23, 42, 43, 60, 101–3, 107, 208, 110, 111, 113, 115–16, 119, 124, 142, 145, 214; fancy and, 104, 108, 109–10, 126, 127, 143; queer and, 105

Othello (Shakespeare), 203

Overdo, Justice, 138, 142

paranoia, 4, 10, 12, 40, 46, 48, 156, 160–62, 165, 168, 171, 177, 185, 188, 192, 206, 207, 254, 255, 260, 262, 263; desire and, 158, 162, 187; dynamics of projection and, 175–76; exposure and, 174, 181–82, 188, 206, 263; homophobia and, 46, 158; persecutory, 158, 195; reflexive/mimetic, 157, 158, 159, 169

paranoid position, 38, 160, 161, 174

paranoid reading. See reading: paranoid

“Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading: or, You’re So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Introduction Is About You” (Sedgwick), 157, 257

past: artifacts of, 15, 16, 20, 261; future and, 15, 231, 241; queerness of, 28, 29, 30, 34. See also future; present

Paster, Gail Kern, 7

Pastor, Beatríz, 305n22

patriarchy, 39, 74, 78, 91, 148, 271n6

pedagogy, 37, 44, 264, 265

penis, 84, 85, 89, 94, 96, 114, 285n58

Percy, George, 253

Peregrine, 17–18, 20, 22, 25, 27, 33, 36, 38, 39, 40, 42, 47, 86–87, 256; desire and, 22–23, 26, 37, 48

performance, 6, 58, 77; collaborative, 155; command, 169, 170; gender, 58, 68, 70, 76, 91; theatrical, 24–25

persecution, 10, 46, 154, 157, 159, 173, 175, 185, 192, 207

Petrarch, 106, 288n10

phallus, 85, 184, 286n59

Philaster, 41, 51; Arethusa and, 54, 57, 59, 61, 62, 63, 65, 69, 71, 96, 97–98; Bellario and, 54, 55, 56, 61, 62, 63, 66–67, 68, 83, 95–96, 97–98

Philaster, or Love Lies a-Bleeding (Beaumont and Fletcher), 2, 41, 51, 52, 53, 84, 86, 93, 94, 145; ending of, 95, 96, 100, 188

Philips, Adam, 5

Picts, 48, 241, 242, 253, 254

Pilliwinckes, 151, 161, 169

pleasure, 33, 59, 89, 108, 208, 225–26, 229, 256, 262

politics, 33, 44, 49, 125, 137, 253, 258, 259, 261; queer, 20, 35, 185, 209

polymorphous perversity, 12, 13–14, 109, 110, 113, 115, 126, 135

Povinelli, Elizabeth, 208–9

power, 37, 75, 81, 149, 173, 185, 237; knowledge and, 227; violence and, 209

Powhatan empire, 245, 246, 247, 311n131

present, 16, 17, 22, 30, 73–74, 75. See also future; past

Prester John, 23

progress: heteronormative model of, 104; narratives of, 27–28, 32; reversal/refusal of, 210, 227

prostitution, 117, 118, 120, 136, 150

Protestantism, 48, 127, 213, 249

psychoanalytic theory, 12, 13, 15, 16

Puar, Jasbir, 45, 209

puppet-ghost flashing, 140, 141, 142, 144

Purchas, Samuel, 246, 303n7, 311n128

Purecraft, Dame, 121, 127, 129

Puritans, 17, 120, 128, 130, 131

queer, 3–5, 8, 13, 29, 35, 52, 60, 86, 93, 98, 100, 105, 116, 138, 145, 168, 178, 179, 182, 188, 213, 235, 253, 254, 255; aesthetics/style, 63, 216; category/expansion of, 2–3, 9–11, 41; political stakes of, 19, 45, 208–9; reading practice, 16, 20–21, 104, 154, 207, 226; structural/systemic/qualitative forms of, 9, 17, 26, 39, 105, 107, 117, 231; term, 2, 20, 44, 274n26, 279n102. See also camp

“Queer and Now” (Sedgwick), 226, 228

queer figures, 46–47, 92, 148, 175, 194

Queer Nation, 274n25

queer theory, 2, 9–10, 19, 27, 34, 36, 149, 158, 256; early modern literature and, 17, 21, 49, 205–6

Quinn, David Beers, 310n120

race, 44, 119, 204, 245, 247, 254

racism, 45, 245, 253. See also nationalism: white

Rackin, Phyllis, 282n23

Raleigh, Walter, 202, 237, 244, 251

reading, 16, 21, 23–24, 262, 276n67; early modern practices of, 22–23, 202–3; paranoid, 46, 258, 259, 260; reparative, 22, 259, 260, 262–63; theater and, 24–25

relations: affective, 74, 241, 259; colonial, 206–7; queer modes of, 20, 41, 52–53, 70, 86, 100, 201

Release the Stars (Wainwright), 289n46

religion, 5, 119, 127, 134, 169, 200–201, 204, 217, 220–23

Renaissance, 5, 15, 29, 94, 260, 264; white supremacist uses of, 252

Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England, The (Traub), 73

renunciation, 102–3, 208, 211, 254

reparative position, 22, 260, 263. See also depressive position; reading: reparative

representation, 24, 33, 260–61

reproduction, 106, 108, 109, 121, 165, 173, 234, 236, 259; of desire, 43, 104, 126; sexual, 105, 111–12, 118, 128, 145, 201, 224, 231

Ricoeur, Paul, 157, 159

Rifkin, Mark, 209, 250, 313n149

Roanoke, 44, 47, 201, 202, 208, 212, 223, 224, 234, 237, 238, 251, 253; fate of, 245, 246, 247, 249; homosociality of, 232; myth of, 248, 249, 250; story, 244, 245, 310n120, 312n138

Roaring Girl, The (Middleton and Dekker), 41, 51, 52, 53, 54, 58, 70–71, 73, 74, 86, 89, 91, 93, 94, 96, 99, 150, 174

Roaring Girle, or Moll-Cut-Purse, The (Middleton and Dekker), frontispiece of, 90 (fig.)

Roberts, Gareth, 155, 156, 163

Rohy, Valerie, 34

Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare), 129

Roper, Lyndal, 155, 156

Rose, Nikolas, 233

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 113

Rowley, William, 45, 147, 171

“Rules and Regulations” (Wainwright), 289n46

Rylance, Mark, 114, 115

Sabbath, 45, 166, 168

sadism, 14, 165, 166, 177, 299n54. See also masochism

St. Bartholomew the Great, 119

St. Bartholomew’s Day, 119, 217

Sampson, Agnis, 159, 160, 161, 165, 173, 185, 195, 294n9, 295n14, 298nn47–48, 298n50; confession of, 170; performance by, 176; torture of, 152–53

Samuell, Alice, 153

Sanchez, Melissa, 107, 277n79

Santesso, Aaron, 285n50

Sawyer, Elizabeth, 172, 180, 185, 189, 194; accusation against, 175, 190; domestic/sexual disasters and, 184; scapegoating, 190–91, 196; self-styling as witch by, 177, 178, 179; trial/execution of, 45, 147, 171, 191; woodcut of, 180 (fig.)

Scot, Reginald, 297n43

Scott, Michael, 249

Sea Voyage, The (Fletcher), 203

Seaton, David, 150–52, 157–58, 162–63, 172–73

Sebastian (Roaring Girl), 70, 77, 91; Mary and, 80, 86, 88, 89, 92, 99; Moll and, 71, 82–83, 84, 85, 86, 88, 93, 99

Sebastian (Twelfth Night), 104, 111–12, 113, 114

secrecy, 4, 183; sexual, 156, 170, 171, 172

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, 21, 22, 33, 116, 174, 206, 226, 228, 229, 254, 255, 257, 258, 264; affect theory and, 5, 7; homophobia, analysis of, 45, 78, 79–80, 158, 280n114, 284n48; Klein and, 14–15, 46, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 259–60, 262, 263; queerness, definition of, 2, 10, 226; sexual identity and, 8, 11, 29, 79–80

sex, 8, 49, 100, 262, 264, 265; anatomical, 12, 57, 72, 76, 85, 94–95, 96; dyadic, 37, 38, 53–54, 59, 73, 83; group, 47, 86, 87, 88, 168, 226; heterosexual, 39, 40, 118, 236; procreative, 37, 40, 105; refusal of, 19–20, 40. See also acts; generation; reproduction

sexual, 10, 117; nonsexual and, 13

sexual difference, 11, 12, 13, 14, 36, 94, 100, 110, 132, 140, 141, 210

sexuality, 7, 19, 28, 176, 260, 262, 265; history of, 9, 29, 105, 116, 149

Shakespeare, William, 3, 13, 23, 28, 31, 42, 53, 58, 72, 101, 203, 232, 234, 241, 264; fancy and, 106; Globe productions of, 114; mythologized figure of, 30

Shannon, Laurie, 145

Shelley, Mary, 248

Shepherd, Simon, 285n50

Singal, Peter, 209

slavery, 136, 185, 209

Sleep No More (Punchdrunk), 34

Smith, Bruce R., 287n5

Smith, John, 245, 246, 253

Smithfield, 119, 131, 133

sodomy, 7–8, 94, 95, 296n30

Somerville, Siobhan, 254

Sontag, Susan, 63, 64

Spenser, Edmund, 204