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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... considered the finest comedian of the period . Also , I should mention Cardell Goodman in the black - face role of ... considered foppish offstage as well . 12 Horden Hildebrand , considered overtly homosexual by Montague Summers ( The ...
... considered as a group to be homosexual because of their inability to enjoy heterosexual intercourse , they might perhaps better be considered examples of an androgyne , having both masculine and feminine characteristics simultaneously ...
... considered lesbianism a “ new sort of sin " that has “ got footing among English women of quality , and is prac- ticed in Twinckenham as well as in Turkey " ( Norton , Mother Clap 233 ) . The diary of Mrs. Hester Thrale Piozzi , begun ...
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Melodramas and Marjories | 243 |
Decadence | 265 |
Bibliography | 293 |
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