The Kinky Renaissance Bibliography

This selective bibliography is not exhaustive of all the sources cited in individual chapters, each of which provides full citations for their sources in the notes. Instead, we have assembled here both primary and secondary sources from the chapters that we hope will be helpful for scholars interested in pursuing future work in premodern kink studies.

Primary Sources

Banister, John. The Historie of Man. London, 1578.

Beaumont, Francis and John Fletcher. The Captain. Edited by L. A. Beaurline. In The Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon, vol. 1, edited by Fredson Bowers, 541–670. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1966.

—. The Maid’s Tragedy. Edited by T. W. Craik. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988.

“The Catologue of Contented Cuckolds: Or, A Loving Society of Confessing Brethren of the Forked Order, etc. who being met together in a Tavern, declar’d each Man his Condition, resolving to be contented, and drown’d Melancholly in a Glass of Necktar. To the Tune of, Fond Boy, etc. Or, Love’s a sweet Passion, etc.” Little-Britain: Printed for J.C. London, 1685.

“Cuckolds all a-Row. / Or, A Summons issued out from the Master-Cuckolds and Wardens of Fumblers- / Hall; directed to all Henpeckt and Hornified Tradesmen in and about the City of London, / requiring their appearance at Cuckolds-Point. Concluding with a pleasant new Song.” Printed for R. Kell, 1685–1688.

A Dialogue Between a Married Lady and a Maid. London, 1740.

Donne, John. “The Comparison.” In The Complete Poems of John Donne, edited by Robin Robbins. New York: Routledge, 2013.

Fletcher, John. The Tamer Tamed. Edited by Lucy Munro. London: Methuen Drama, 2010.

—. The Wild-Goose Chase a Comedie. London: Printed for Humpherey Moseley, 1652. Early English Books Online. https://www.proquest.com/books/wild-goose-chase-comedie-as-hath-been-acted-with/docview/2264211006/se-2.

“A General Summons for those Belonging to the Hen-Peck’d Frigate, to Appear at Cuckolds-Point, on the 18th. of this Instant October. Licensed According to Order. Your Presence is Required, and are Hereby Lawfully Summoned (as Belonging to the Hen-Peck’d-Frigate) to Appear at Cuckolds-Point (being the Antient Place of our Rendezvous) on the 18th. of this Instant October; […] Thomas Cann’t-be-Quiet Beadle [Ladies of London.]. London: Printed for J. Deacon, 1672–1702.

Gerard, John. The herball or General historie of plantes. London: Printed by Adam Islip Ioice Norton and Richard Whitakers, 1633. Early English Books Online. https://www.proquest.com/books/herball-generall-historie-plantes-gathered-iohn/docview/2240902621/se-2.

Harrington, John. A Nevv Discourse of a Stale Subiect, Called the Metamorphosis of Aiax. London: Imprinted by Richard Field, 1596. Early English Books Online. https://www.proquest.com/books/nevv-discourse-stale-subiect-called-metamorphosis/docview/2248584507/se-2.

Jonson, Ben. Love Restored. In Ben Jonson: Selected Masques, edited by Stephen Orgel, 116–27. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1970.

“Kissing his Mistris.” Poems by several hands, and on several occasions collected by N[ahum] Tate. London, 1685.

Levens, Peter. A Right Profitable Booke for all Diseases Called, the Pathway to Health. London: Printed by I. Roberts for Edward VVhite, 1596. Early English Books Online, http://www.proquest.com/books/right-profitable-booke-all-diseases-called/docview/2240892214/se-2.

Lyly, John. The Woman in the Moon (The Revels Plays). Edited by Leah Scragg. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006.

Marowitz, Charles. The Shrew (Freely Adapted from William Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew”). London: Calder and Boyars, 1975.

Miles, Abraham. “Mirth for Citizens: Or, A Comedy for the Country.” Printed for P. Brooksby, c. 1672–1696. English Broadside Ballad Archive. http://ebba.ds.lib.ucdavis.edu/ballad/37229/xml.

“Poor Anthony’s Complaint / And Lamentation against his miseries of / marriage, meeting with a scolding wife.” Printed for J. Conyers at the Black Raven in Fetter-lane, c. 1662–1692. English Broadside Ballad Archive. https://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/ballad/31889/xml.

Rowley, William and Thomas Middleton. The Changeling. Edited and annotated by Douglas Bruster. In Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works, edited by Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino, 1632–78. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Shakespeare, William. Macbeth. In The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, Walter Cohen, Jean E. Howard, and Katharine Eisaman Maus, 2564–2618. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997.

—. The Taming of the Shrew. Edited by Barbara Hodgdon. London: Arden Shakespeare, 2010.

—. The Taming of the Shrew: Texts and Contexts. Edited by Frances E. Dolan. New York: Bedford, 1996.

—. Titus Andronicus. Edited by Jonathan Bates. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 1995.

—. “Venus and Adonis.” In Shakespeare’s Poems, edited by Katherine Duncan-Jones and H. R. Woodhouse, 125–229. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2007.

Stanley, Thomas. “The Enjoyment.” Poems by Thomas Stanley, Esquire. London, 1651.

The Taming of a Shrew. Edited by Stephen Roy Miller. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Tasso, Torquato. Gerusalemme Liberata. Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1898.

Taylor, John. Bull, Beare, and Horse, Cut, Curtaile, and Longtaile. VVith Tales, and Tales of Buls, Clenches, and Flashes …. London: Printed by M. Parsons, for Henry Gosson, 1638. Early English Books Online. https://www.proquest.com/books/bull-beare-horse-cut-curtaile-longtaile-vvith/docview/2240892079/se-2.

T. R. Hey for Horn Fair, the General Market of England, Or, Room for Cuckolds being a Merry Progress of Nine several Sorts of Cuckolds here Discovered … : Full of Mirth and Merry Discourse, Newly Presented from Horn Fair to all the Merry Good Fellows in England : To which is Added, the Marriage of Jockie and Jenny [Hey for Horn Fair. Room for cuckolds. Marriage of Jockie and Jenny.]. London: Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, and J. Wright, 1674.

The Welsh-Mens Glory, Or, the Famous Victories of the Antient Britans Obtain’d upon St. David’s Day. London: Printed by Thomas Dawks, his Majesties British printer, at the west-end of T’, 1684. Early English Books Online. https://www.proquest.com/books/welsh-mens-glory-famous-victories-antient-britans/docview/2240899958/se-2.

Secondary Sources

“Ace Week 101: Aces and Sex or Kink.” The Ace and Aro Advocacy Project. October 28, 2021. https://www.taaap.org/2021/10/28/ace-week-21-aces-sex-kink.

Akhimie, Patricia. Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference: Race and Conduct in the Early Modern World. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2018.

Alfar, Cristina Leon. “Staging the Feminine Performance of Desire: Masochism in The Maid’s Tragedy.” Papers on Language and Literature 31, no. 3 (1995): 313–33.

Amin, Kadji. Disturbing Attachments: Genet, Modern Pederasty, and Queer History. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017.

Anderson, Judith. Reading the Allegorical Intertext: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton. New York: Fordham University Press, 2008.

Angel, Katherine. Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent. London: Verso Books, 2021.

Arvas, Abdulhamit. “Leander in the Ottoman Mediterranean: The Homoerotics of Abduction in the Global Renaissance.” English Literary Renaissance 51, no. 1 (2020): 31–62. https://doi.org/10.1086/711601.

Bailey, Amanda. “Occupy Macbeth: Masculinity and Political Masochism in Macbeth.” In Violent Masculinities: Male Aggression in Early Modern Texts and Culture, edited by Jennifer Feather and Catherine E. Thomas, 191–212. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Baker, Moira P. “‘The Uncanny Stranger on Display’: The Female Body in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Love Poetry.” South Atlantic Review 56, no. 2 (1991): 7–25.

Barret, J. K. Untold Futures: Time and Literary Culture in Renaissance England. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2017.

Bates, Catherine. Masculinity, Gender, and Identity in the English Renaissance Lyric. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Bauer, Robin. Queer BDSM Intimacies: Critical Consent and Pushing Boundaries. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Bergeron, David. “Fletcher’s The Woman’s Prize, Transgression, and Querelle des Femmes.” Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England 8 (1996): 146–64. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24322255.

Beringer, Alison L. The Sight of Semiramis: Medieval and Early Modern Narratives of the Babylonian Queen. Tempe, AZ: ACMRS Press, 2016.

Berlant, Lauren and Lee Edelman. Sex, or the Unbearable. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014.

Berlant, Lauren and Michael Warner. “Sex in Public.” Critical Inquiry 24, no. 2 (1998): 547–66. https://doi.org/10.1086/448884.

Blake, Liza. “Early Modern Asexuality (and Aromanticism).” The Asexuality and Aromanticism Bibliography. September 2022. https://acearobiblio.com/2022/08/22/early-modern-asexuality-and-aromanticism/.

Boose, Lynda. “Scolding Bridles and Bridling Scolds: Taming the Woman’s Unruly Member.” Shakespeare Quarterly 42, no. 1 (1991): 179–213. https://doi.org/10.2307/2870547.

Bourdieu, Pierre. Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste. Translated by Richard Nice. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984.

Braden, Gordon. “Hero and Leander in Bed (and the Morning After).” English Literary Renaissance 45, no. 2 (2015): 205–30. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6757.12046.

Bray, Alan. The Friend. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.

—. Homosexuality in Renaissance England. London: Gay Men’s Press, 1982.

Bredbeck, Gregory. Sodomy and Interpretation: From Marlowe to Milton. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1991.

Britton, Dennis Austin. Becoming Christian: Race, Reformation, and Early Modern English Romance. New York: Fordham University Press, 2014.

Bromley, James. Clothing and Queer Style in Early Modern English Drama. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.

—. Intimacy and Sexuality in the Age of Shakespeare. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Brown, Georgia. Redefining Elizabethan Literature. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Brown, Pamela Allen. Better a Shrew Than a Sheep: Women, Drama, and the Culture of Jest in Early Modern England. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003. https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501722363.

Bruster, Douglas. “The Horn of Plenty: Cuckoldry and Capital in the Drama of the Age of Shakespeare.” Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 30, no. 2 (1990): 195–215. https://doi.org/10.2307/450514.

Bullard, Angela D. “Tempering the Intemperate in Spenser’s Bower of Bliss.” Spenser Studies 31–32 (2018): 167–87. https://doi.org/10.1086/695575.

Cahill, Patricia. “The Play of Skin in The Changeling.” postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies 3, no. 4 (2012): 391–406. https://doi.org/10.1057/pmed.2012.26.

Califia, Patrick. “Public Sex.” 1982. Reprint in Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sex. Pittsburgh PA: Cleis Press, 1994.

—. Speaking Sex to Power: The Politics of Queer Sex. Jersey City, NJ: Cleis Press, 2001.

Campana, Joseph. The Pain of Reformation: Spenser, Vulnerability, and the Ethics of Masculinity. New York: Fordham University Press, 2012.

Carlström, Charlotta. “Spiritual Experiences and Altered States of Consciousness: Parallels between BDSM and Christianity.” Sociological Forum 33, no. 4 (2018): 749–66. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460720964035.

Cefalu, Paul. “The Burdens of Mind Reading in Shakespeare’s Othello: A Cognitive and Psychoanalytic Approach to Iago’s Theory of Mind.” Shakespeare Quarterly 64, no. 3 (2013): 265–94. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24778472.

Chang, Jerry Yung-Ching. “The Pornoethnography of Boys in the Sand: Fetishisms of Race and Class in the 1970s Gay Fire Island Pines.” Women’s Studies Quarterly 43, no. 3 (2015): 101–15. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43958553.

Chapman, Matthieu. Anti-Black Racism in Early Modern English Drama: The Other “Other.” Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2016.

Cheng, Anne Anlin. Second Skin: Josephine Baker & the Modern Surface. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.

—. “Shine: On Race, Glamour, and the Modern.” PMLA 126, no. 4 (2011): 1022–41. https://doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2011.126.4.1022.

Chess, Simone. Male-to-Female Crossdressing in Early Modern English Literature: Gender, Performance, and Queer Relations. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2019.

Chess, Simone, Colby Gordon, and Will Fisher, eds. “Early Modern Trans Studies.” Special issue, Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 19, no. 4 (2019).

Christina, Greta. “The Ethics of Public Sex.” Greta Christina’s Blog. October 9, 2009. https://gretachristina.typepad.com/greta_christinas_weblog/2009/10/ethics-of-public-sex-1.html.

Clare, Janet. “‘She’s Turned Fury’: Women Transmogrified in Revenge Plays.” In Revenge and Gender in Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Literature, edited by Lesel Dawson and Fiona McHardy, 221–36. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018.

Clark, Sandra. “The Economics of Marriage in the Broadside Ballad.” Journal of Popular Culture 36, no. 1 (2002): 119–33. https://doi.org/10.1111/1540-5931.00034.

Clarke, Mary Cowden. “Katherine and Bianca: The Shrew, and the Demure.” In The Girlhood of Shakespeare’s Heroines in a Series of Tales, 95–184. New York: A.C. Armstrong, 1881.

Cole, Samantha. “‘The Money Shot’: How Porn Made Cum So Valuable.” Vice. September 30, 2020. https://www.vice.com/en/article/bv8q45/history-of-the-money-shot-cum-fetish.

Cooney, Helen. “Guyon and His Palmer: Spenser’s Emblem of Temperance.” The Review of English Studies 51, no. 202 (May 2000): 169–92. https://doi.org/10.1093/res/51.202.169.

Corcoran, Kellye. “Cuckoldry as Performance, 1675–1715.” Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 52, no. 3 (2012): 543–59. https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2012.0029.

Cowart, Leigh. Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose. New York: Public Affairs, 2019.

Craig, Elaine. “Laws of Desire: The Political Morality of Public Sex.” McGill Law Journal 54, no. 2 (2009), 355–85. https://doi.org/10.7202/038658ar.

Craven, Alice Mikal. “Representing Semiramis in Shakespeare and Calderón.” Shakespeare 4, no. 2 (2008): 157–69. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450910802083443.

Crocker, Holly. “The Tamer as Shrewd in John Fletcher’s The Woman’s Prize: Or, The Tamer Tamed.” Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 51, no. 2 (2011): 409–26. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23028082.

Cruz, Ariane. The Color of Kink: Black Women, BDSM, and Pornography. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014.

Daniel, Drew. “‘Let me have judgment, and the Jew his will’: Melancholy Epistemology and Masochistic Fantasy in The Merchant of Venice.” Shakespeare Quarterly 61, no. 2 (2010): 206–34. https://doi.org/10.1353/shq.0.0144.

Daniell, David. “The Good Marriage of Katherine and Petruchio.” Shakespeare Survey 37 (1984): 23–32. https://doi.org/10.1017/ccol0521267013.003.

Darcy, Robert F. “‘Under my hands … a double duty’: Printing and Pressing Marlowe’s Hero and Leander.” Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 2, no. 2 (2002): 26–56. https://doi.org/10.1353/jem.2002.0015.

Davis, Imani. “Kink.” Poem-a-Day. Academy of American Poets. February 3, 2023. https://poets.org/poem/kink?mc_cid=031c76dab8&mc_eid=307c62b1f7.

Dean, Tim. “Afterword: The Raw and the Fucked.” In Raw: PrEP, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Barebacking, edited by Ricky Varghese, 285–304. London: Zed Books Ltd, 2019.

—. Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Deleuze, Gilles. Coldness and Cruelty. In Masochism: “Coldness and Cruelty” and “Venus in Furs,” by Gilles Deleuze and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, translated by Jean McNeil, 9–138. New York: Zone Books, 1989.

Desai, Adhaar Noor. “Scientific Misrule: Francis Bacon at Gray’s Inn.” Philological Quarterly 98, nos. 1–2 (2019): 119–36.

DiClaudio, Dennis. The Deviant’s Pocket Guide to Outlandish Sexual Desires Barely Contained in Your Subconscious. Washington: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc., 2019.

DiGangi, Mario. The Homoerotics of Early Modern Drama. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

—. Sexual Types: Embodiment, Agency, and Dramatic Character from Shakespeare to Shirley. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.

Dodds, Lara and Michelle M. Dowd, eds. Feminist Formalism and Early Modern Women’s Writing: Readings, Conversations, Pedagogies. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2022.

Dolan, Frances E. Marriage and Violence: The Early Modern Legacy. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812201772.

Dugan, Holly. The Ephemeral History of Perfume. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.

Duncan-Jones, Katherine. “Much Ado with Red and White: The Earliest Readers of Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis (1593).” The Review of English Studies 44, no. 176 (1993): 479–501. https://www.jstor.org/stable/517333.

Dyer, Richard. White: Essays on Race and Culture. New York: Routledge, 1997.

Edelman, Lee. “Unbecoming: Pornography and the Queer Event.” In Post/Porn/Politics: Queer-Feminist Perspective on the Politics of Porn Performance and Sex Work as Cultural Production, edited by Tim Stüttgen, 195–211. Berlin: b_books, 2009.

Eisendrath, Rachel. Poetry in a World of Things: Aesthetics and Empiricism in Renaissance Ekphrasis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018.

Felski, Rita. “Redescriptions of Female Masochism.” The Minnesota Review, nos. 63–64 (2005): 127–39.

Fennell, Julie. “‘It’s all about the journey’: Skepticism and Spirituality in the BDSM Subculture.” Sociological Forum 33, no. 4 (2018): 1045–67. https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.12460.

Findlay, Alison. A Feminist Perspective on Renaissance Drama. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1999.

Fischel, Joseph. Screw Consent: Sex and Harm in the Age of Consent. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2019.

Fisher, Will. “The Erotics of Chin Chucking in Seventeenth-Century England.” In Sex Before Sex: Figuring the Act in Early Modern England, edited by James M. Bromley and Will Stockton, 141–69. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013.

—. “‘Stray[ing] lower where the pleasant fountains lie’: Cunnilingus in Venus and Adonis and in English Culture, c. 1600–1700.” In The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment: Gender, Sexuality, and Race, edited by Valerie Traub, 333–46. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.

—. “‘Wantoning with the Thighs’: The Socialization of Thigh Sex in England, 1590–1730.” Journal of the History of Sexuality 24, no. 1 (2015): 1–24. https://doi.org/10.7560/JHS24101.

Fitzpatrick, Joan. “Foreign Appetites and Alterity: Is There an Irish Context for Titus Andronicus?” Connotations 11, nos. 2–3 (2001–2002): 127–45.

Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction. Translated by Robert Hurley. New York: Pantheon, 1978.

Freccero, Carla. Queer/Early/Modern. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006.

Freeman, Elizabeth. Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010.

Freud, Sigmund. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works. Vol. 18. Translated by James Strachey. London: Hogarth Press & Institute of Psychoanalysis, 1953–74.

Gamble, Joseph. “Practicing Sex.” Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 19, no. 1 (2019): 85–116. https://doi.org/10.1353/jem.2019.0013.

—. Sex Lives: Intimate Infrastructures in Early Modernity. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023.

Garcia, Christien. “Merely Barebacking.” In Raw: PrEP, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Barebacking, edited by Ricky Varghese, 263–84. London: Zed Books Ltd, 2019.

Glickman, Charlie. “Consent and Public Disgrace.” Charlie Glickman PhD (blog). March 20, 2011. https://charlieglickman.com/consent-and-public-disgrace/.

—. “The Nuances of Consent: More Thoughts about Public Disgrace.” Charlie Glickman PhD (blog). March 29, 2011. http://new.charlieglickman.com/the-nuances-of-consent-more-thoughts-about-public-disgrace/.

Goldberg, Jonathan. Sodometries: Renaissance Texts, Modern Sexualities. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 1992.

Goldberg, Jonathan, ed. Queering the Renaissance. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994.

Gordon, Colby. “A Woman’s Prick: Trans Technogenesis in Sonnet 20.” In Shakespeare/Sex: Contemporary Readings in Gender and Sexuality, edited by Jennifer Drouin, 269–89. London: Bloomsbury, 2020.

Gowing, Laura. Common Bodies: Women, Touch, and Power in Seventeenth-Century England. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1pzk6gh.

Graham, Katherine M. “‘[Nor] Bear I in this Breast / So Much Cold Spirit to be Called a Woman’: The Queerness of Female Revenge in The Maid’s Tragedy.” Early Theatre 21, no. 1 (2018): 107–26.

Green, Stuart P. Criminalizing Sex: A Unified Liberal Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197507483.001.0001.

Grier, Miles. “Are Shakespeare’s Plays Racially Progressive? The Answer Is in Our Hands.” In The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race, edited by Ayanna Thompson, 237–53. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Grimmett, Roxanne. “‘By Heaven and Hell’: Re-evaluating Representations of Women and the Angel/Whore Dichotomy in Renaissance Revenge Tragedy.” Journal of International Women’s Studies 6, no. 3 (2005): 31–39.

Guy-Bray, Stephen. Shakespeare and Queer Representation. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2021.

—. “Spenser’s Filthy Matter.” The Explicator 62, no. 4 (2004): 194–95. https://doi.org/10.1080/00144940409597218.

Haber, Judith. Desire and Dramatic Form in Early Modern England. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Hall, Kim F. “‘These bastard signs of fair’: Literary Whiteness in Shakespeare’s Sonnets.” In Post-Colonial Shakespeares, edited by Ania Loomba and Martin Orkin, 64–83. London: Routledge, 2003.

—. Things of Darkness: Economies of Race and Gender in Early Modern England. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996.

Halperin, David. One Hundred Years of Homosexuality. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 1989.

Hammill, Graham. Sexuality and Form: Caravaggio, Marlowe, and Bacon. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Hammonds, Evelynn. “Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality.” differences 6, no. 2–3 (1994): 126–45. https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-6-2-3-126.

Hammons, Pamela S. Gender, Sexuality, and Material Objects in English Renaissance Verse. Abingdon, UK: Routledge: 2010.

Hanna, Cheryl. “Sex Is Not a Sport: Consent and Violence in Criminal Law.” Boston College Law Review 42, no. 2 (2001): 239–90. https://lira.bc.edu/work/ns/c1235e1f-b53d-42d9-8be9-4460f3769000.

Hardy, Janet W. and Dossie Easton. The Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships, and Other Freedoms in Sex and Love. 3rd ed. Emeryville, CA: Ten Speed Press, 2017.

Harries, Brian J. “The Fall of Mediterranean Rome in Titus Andronicus.” Mediterranean Studies 26, no. 2 (2018): 194–212. https://doi.org/10.5325/mediterraneanstu.26.2.0194.

Heisel, Andrew. “‘I Don’t Know Whether to Kiss You or Spank You’: A Half Century of Fear of an Unspanked Woman.” Jezebel. April 12, 2016. https://jezebel.com/i-dont-know-whether-to-kiss-you-or-spank-you-a-half-ce-1769140132.

Helfer, Rebecca. Spenser’s Ruins and the Art of Recollection. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012.

Hendricks, Margo. “Race and Nation.” In The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare, edited by Bruce Smith and Katherine Rowe, 663–668. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Herrick, Robert. The Poetical Works of Robert Herrick. Edited by L. C. Martin. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956.

Herrup, Cynthia. A House in Gross Disorder: Sex, Law, and the 2nd Earl of Castlehaven. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Hill, Thomas. The Gardeners Labyrinth Containing a Discourse of the Gardeners Life. London: by Henry Bynneman, 1577. Early English Books Online, https://www.proquest.com/books/gardeners-labyrinth-containing-discourse-life/docview/2248559510/se-2.

Holland, Sharon. The Erotic Life of Racism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012.

Hunt, Lynn. “Introduction.” In The Invention of Pornography: Obscenity and the Origins of Modernity, 1500–1800, edited by Lynn Hunt, 9–46. New York: Zone Books, 1993.

Hyman, Wendy Beth. “Seizing Flowers in Spenser’s Bower and Garden.” English Literary Renaissance 37, no. 2 (Spring 2007): 193–214. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-6757.2007.00101.x.

Iyengar, Sujata. Shades of Difference: Mythologies of Skin Color in Early Modern England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.

Jacobson, Miriam. Barbarous Antiquity: Reorienting the Past in the Poetry of Early Modern England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014.

Johnson, Viola. “The Love that Dare Not Speak Its Name: Playing With and Against Racial Stereotypes.” Black Leather … in Color (1994): 8–9.

Kadue, Katie. “Flower Girls and Garbage Women: Misogyny and Cliché in Ronsard and Herrick.” Modern Philology 118, no. 3 (2021): 319–39. https://doi.org/10.1086/712403.

Kahn, Coppélia. “The Taming of the Shrew: Shakespeare’s Mirror of Marriage.” Modern Language Studies 5, no. 1 (1975): 88–102. https://doi.org/10.2307/3194204.

Keenan, Jillian. Sex with Shakespeare: Here’s Much to Do with Pain, but More with Love. New York: William Morrow, 2016.

Kendi, Ibram X. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America. New York: Bold Type Books, 2016.

Kerrigan, John. Revenge Tragedy: Aeschylus to Armageddon. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001.

Kesson, Andy. “‘It is a pity you are not a woman’: John Lyly and the Creation of Woman.” Shakespeare Bulletin vol. 33, no. 1 (2005): 33–47. https://doi.org/10.1353/shb.2015.0001.

—. “The Woman in the Moon Onstage.” Before Shakespeare (blog). August 19, 2017. https://beforeshakespeare.com/2017/08/19/the-woman-in-the-moon-onstage/.

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