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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... association be- tween effeminacy and same - sex attraction in the character of the beau between 1702 and 1750 , particularly in the genre of the ballad opera , and explores the relationship between castration and a “ homosexual ...
... association between sorcery and sodomy by introducing the alchemical subplot and the overt use of the word mystery in terms of alchemical knowledge as well as the pun on its plural in act 4 , scene 4 , in the following exchange between ...
... association of same - sex desire and the worship of the devil , how much of this activity was encoded . On the other hand , since same - sex activity was generally tolerated among schoolboys , one wonders how far afield Marlowe wandered ...
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Melodramas and Marjories | 243 |
Decadence | 265 |
Bibliography | 293 |
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