Homosexualities in the English Theatre: From Lyly to WildeBloomsbury Academic, 1997 M11 30 - 360 páginas Scholars have given increasing amounts of attention to the place of homosexuality in different periods of English cultural and literary history. This book is a broad survey of representations of homosexuality in the English theatre from the Renaissance to the late 19th century. It draws on scholarship from a wide range of disciplines, including sociology, history, psychology, literature, and drama. The first chapter provides a background for the book by discussing the nature of same-sex behavior in the ancient and medieval worlds. The chapters that follow discuss such topics as sodomy and transvestite theatre in the Renaisssance; female transvestism on the English stage during the 17th century; bisexuality in 18th-century drama; the rise of English homophobia and the proliferation of lesbian relationships in England between 1745 and 1790; the homophobic context of English theatre during the Romantic Movement (1790-1835); and the rebirth of interest in Greek thought and its associations with same-sex poetry, drama, and pornography in the Victorian era (1840-1900). |
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... Wilde 11-12 ) . The incidents leading to Wilde's arrest are simple to chart . In June 1891 , Lord Alfred Douglas ( affectionately known as Bosie ) , then twenty years old , a younger son of the marquess of Queensberry , was introduced ...
... Wilde , it is tempting to connect the last two lines of the song with the emer- gence of a homosexual identity . Similarly , the Poet's dialogue with a Fairy al- ludes to Wilde's same - sex desire and the creation of a minoritizing ...
From Lyly to Wilde John Franceschina. reaffirms the significance of Wilde's trials and subsequent incarceration on the development of a homosexual identity : " The Oscar Wilde trial , with its wide publicity ... appears to have generally ...
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Melodramas and Marjories | 243 |
Decadence | 265 |
Bibliography | 293 |
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