Introduction: interiority, futurity, and affective relations in Renaissance literature 1. Intimacy and narrative closure in Christopher Marlowe's Hero and Leander 2. A funny thing happened on the way to the altar: the anus, marriage, and narrative in Shakespeare 3. Social status and the intimacy of masochistic sexual practice in Beaumont and Fletcher and Middleton 4. Nuns and nationhood: intimacy in convents in Renaissance drama 5. Female homoeroticism, race, and public forms of intimacy in the works of Lady Mary Wroth Epilogue: invitation to a queer life.
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