Will Stockton has published extensively on Renaissance literature, the history of sexuality, and Christian cultures. His first book, Playing Dirty: Sexuality and Waste in Early Modern Comedy (University of Minnesota Press, 2011), examines works by William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Thomas Nashe, Sir John Harington, and Geoffrey Chaucer. It analyzes these writers' comic constructions of the body politic alongside their expulsion of female, queer, and Jewish bodies. Stockton's second book, Members of His Body: Shakespeare, Paul, and a Theology of Nonmonogamy (Fordham University Press, 2017), uses four Shakespeare plays – The Comedy of Errors, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, and The Winter's Tale – to explore a lingering post-Reformation Protestant understanding of marriage as a vehicle of salvation, with queer repercussions for notions of fidelity and individuality.
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