Shakespeare and Renaissance literature before heterosexuality

Introduction: Before heterosexuality

The homosocial King Lear: sex, men, and women before the valorization of lust and greed

Restoration Shakespeare 1: adultery and the birth of heterosexuality

Restoration Shakespeare 2: friends and libertines

"Domestic tragedy" and emerging heterosexuality

Othello in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and the colonial origins of heterosexuality.