Queer Pregnancy in Shakespeare's Plays

Queer Pregnancy in Shakespeare’s Plays addresses a conspicuous absence in queer readings of Shakespeare’s work: the pregnant body. Through discussions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Titus Andronicus, All’s Well That Ends Well, Hamlet, and The Winter’s Tale, this book dismantles the heteronormative frameworks through which pregnancy continues to be read.

Its chapters challenge the assumptions in queer theory that only straight women get pregnant, that every pregnancy ends in the birth of a hea...