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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... Court comedy ; my father courts her for a woman , and as I fear she is ; my mother dotes upon her for a man , and as I wish he were " ( sig . D3v ) . Day also connects the male transvestite and effemi- nate man with the sycophants at the ...
... court of Charles was substantially different from that of his father . Mrs. Hutchinson tells us in her Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson : " The face of the court was much changed in the change of the king , for King Charles was temperate ...
... Court of both Sexes have tasted his Beauties " ( Rochester - Savile Letters 72 ) .3 4 The polymorphous sexuality of the age was captured in three plays : The Tempest and The Wild Gallant , both by John Dryden , poet laureate and self ...
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Melodramas and Marjories | 243 |
Decadence | 265 |
Bibliography | 293 |
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