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A cuckold (“cuck” for short) is a man whose wife cheats on him. Jokes about cuckolds and cuckoldry are everywhere in Renaissance literature (especially in Shakespeare), but by the 19th century, society had moved beyond such crude forms of humor. Or so we thought. In the last ten years, America has witnessed a shocking resurgence of cucks and cuckoldry, from online pornography to extremist right-wing discourse. In Early/Modern/Cucks we study the literature of this troubling obsession, reading a range of early modern authors from England, Italy, France, and Spain (all texts will be read in translation).