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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... Clothes Have Changed during the Past Two Hundred Years that " the ideal of any emancipated age is necessarily a creature half man and half woman " ( 30-31 ) . One reason that a transvestite theatre was maintained during the reign of ...
... clothes society ordains for men and women to wear . Thirdly , a woman in disguise or the masculine woman in breeches - is changed by her male dress only because it allows her to express a part of her nature which society sup- presses ...
... clothes " or " in women's clothes . " See Peter Stallybrass's study of this phenomenon in " Transvestism and the ' Body Beneath " 76-80 and Mar- jorie Garber's Vested Interests passim . 3 Roaring Girls and Silent Women QUEEN JAMES In ...
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Melodramas and Marjories | 243 |
Decadence | 265 |
Bibliography | 293 |
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