Adelman, Janet. "Bed Tricks: On Marriage as the End of Comedy in All's Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure." In Shakespeare's Personality, edited by Norman N. Holland, Sidney Homan, and Bernard J. Paris, pp. 151-74. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.

Examines male sexual desire as a violating and corrupting force potentially legitimized through marriage.

Belsey, Catherine. "Desire's Excess and the English Renaissance Theatre: Edward II, Troilus and Cressida, Othello." In Erotic Politics: Desire on the Renaissance Stage, edited by Susan Zimmerman, pp. 84-102. New York: Routledge, 1992.

Notes chaotic and ironic manifestations of desire in Troilus and Cressida and Othello.

Calderwood, James L. "Desire, the Eyes and the Gaze." In Harvester New Critical Introductions to Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream, pp. 23-47. New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992.

Investigates metaphors of seeing in relation to the topic of desire in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Girard, René. "The Politics of Desire in Troilus and Cressida" In Shakespeare and the Question of Theory, pp. 188-209. New York, Methuen, 1985.

Explores the workings of desire in both the erotic and political sub-plots of Troilus and Cressida.

Harris, Jonathan Gil. "'Narcissus in thy face': Roman Desire and the Difference it Fakes in Antony and Cleopatra." Shakespeare Quarterly 45, No. 4 (Winter 1994): 408-25.

Challenges "the status of Cleopatra as the quintessentially female object of heterosexual desire" in Antony and Cleopatra.

Hattaway, Michael. "Fleshing His Will in the Spoil of Her Honour: Desire, Misogyny, and the Perils of Chivalry." In Shakespeare Survey: An Annual Survey of Shakespeare Studies and Production, Volume 46, edited by Stanley Wells, pp. 121-36. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Comments on the anatomical, psychoanalytical, social, and ideological sites of desire and misogyny in several of Shakespeare's plays.

Taylor, Mark. "Female Desire in A Midsummer Night's Dream." Shakespeare Yearbook 2 (Spring 1991): 115-31.

Maintains that female desire in A Midsummer Night's Dream "does not become indistinct or interchangeable; and this desire . . . is not one to which women surrender themselves unconditionally."

Traub, Valerie. "Invading Bodies/Bawdy Exchanges: Disease, Desire, and Representation (Troilus and Cressida)" In Desire and Anxiety: Circulations of Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama, pp. 71-87. London, Routledge, 1992.

Examines the central metaphor of desire as disease in Troilus and Cressida.

Willbern, David. "Hyperbolic Desire: Shakespeare's Lucrece." In Contending Kingdoms: Historical, Psychological, and Feminist Approaches to the Literature of Sixteenth-Century England and France, edited by Marie-Rose Logan and Peter L. Rudnytsky, pp. 202-24. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1991.

Offers a stylistic analysis of obsessive desire in The Rape of Lucrece.