In this monograph, I explore the ways that the play heralded as “Shakespeare’s most transgender play” has become overdetermined and overrepresented as a site for gender study in the early modern canon, to the detriment and exclusion of contemporary trans theory.

Transgender Shakespeare: Beyond the Twelfth Night Problem elucidates and critiques a longstanding extractive relationship between Shakespeare and trans life, but also offers experimental case studies demonstrating how trans studies methodologies can enliven new possibilities in Shakespeare performance and criticism.