Introduction
The wandering anus: Ben Jonson, John Harington, and humanist homopoetics
Shakespeare's ass: The merry wives of Windsor and the butt of the joke
Happy endings: healing sick desires in All's well that ends well
Happy endings II: The unfortunate traveller, the "frenzy of the visible," and the comedy of anti-semitism
The pardoner's dirty breeches: cynicism and kynicism in The Canterbury tales.