Introduction: My Field of Dreams, Part I Festive Play and the Life Force, Chapter One: The Playful Self: Creativity and Cure, Chapter Two: Play and the Free Spirit: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Chapter Three: Play, Screw, Eat and Prey: The Carnival of Life, Interlude: Aesthetic Play: Cinema and Video Games, Chapter Four: You Play, I’ll Watch, Part II Gender Play and Sex Play: Identities Today, Chapter Five: The Poker Stud: Playing Masculinity in Modern Culture, Chapter Six: Playing the Black Widow: Poker Queen’s Take a Seat, Chapter Seven: Playing with Gender: Empowerment and Community in As You Like It and Paris is Burning, Chapter Eight: Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair: Fair Play, Justice, and Trans athletes, Chapter Nine: Playboy in the Wake of # MeToo, Part III Keep Playing, Chapter Ten: Superheroes and the Playful Imagination, Conclusion: Roderick and Me: The Hope & Gratitude of Interspecies Play