Rogue Sexuality in Early Modern English Literature: Desire, Status, Biopolitics

The "rogue," a term that described criminals, prostitutes, vagrants, beggars, and the unemployed, dominated the pages of early modern popular crime literature. Rogue Sexuality resituates the rogue by focusing on how their menace and their seductive appeal emerged not only from their social marginality, but also from their supposedly excessive sexuality and prodigious sexual reproduction.

Through discussions of both familiar and little-studied early modern works by William Shakespeare, John M...