This volume examines the oft-ignored phenomenon of male-to-female (MTF) crossdressing in early modern drama, prose, and poetry, inviting MTF crossdressing episodes to take a fuller place alongside instances of female-to-male crossdressing and boy actors crossdressing, which have long held the spotlight in early modern gender studies. Chess argues that MTF crossdressing episodes are especially rich sources for socially-oriented readings of queer gender that crossdressers genders are constructed and represented "in relation" to romantic partners, communities, and broader social structures...