Ferguson, Margaret W., Maureen Quilligan and Nancy J. Vickers, eds. Rewriting the Renaissance: The Discourses of Sexual Difference in Early Modern Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, 426 p.

Collection of essays on sex and gender relations in the Renaissance.

Kleinberg, Seymour. "The Merchant of Venice: The Homosexual as Anti-Semite in Nascent Capitalism." In Literary Vision of Homosexuality, edited by Stuart Kellogg, pp. 113-26. New York: The Haworth Press, 1983.

Relates the themes of money, ethnic hatred, and homoeroticism in The Merchant of Venice.

Neely, Carol Thomas. Broken Nuptials in Shakespeare's Plays. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985, 261 p.

Examines relations between the sexes in Shakespeare's plays as influenced by the issue of marriage.

Partridge, Eric. Shakespeare's Bawdy: A Literary & Psychological Essay and a Comprehensive Glossary, revised edition. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1969, 223 p.

Seminal study of Shakespeare's use of sexual language. Contains an exhaustive glossary of sex-related words in Shakespeare's plays.

Rose, Mary Beth. The Expense of Spirit: Love and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama. Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 240 p.

Details cultural transformations in the representation of sexuality on the English Renaissance stage.

Shakespeare Survey: Shakespeare and Sexuality 46 (1994): 269 p.

Issue wholly devoted to the topic of sexuality in Shakespeare's works.

Traub, Valerie. Desire and Anxiety: Circulations of Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama. London: Routledge, 1992, 182 p.

Investigates "the relation between erotic desire and its corollary, anxiety, and their role in the construction of male and female subjects in Shakespearean drama."