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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... death : " You have not respected the august purity of your thighs , despite our kisses " ( Cantarella 10 ; Spencer 41 ; Dover 197 ) . In addition , Philemon and Strattis both wrote tragedies based on Achilles's grief over the death of ...
... death , in 1828 , the Offences Against the Person Act ( 9 George IV c . 31 ) was put into effect , reenacting the original statute of Henry VIII ( section 16 ) : “ That every person convicted of the abominable crime of Buggery committed ...
... death or infamy " ( 17 ) . Adelmorn , the Outlaw , produced at Drury Lane on 4 May 1801 , departs from the paranoid Gothic somewhat to produce almost a traditional romantic comedy with same - sex overtones in the character of an ...
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Melodramas and Marjories | 243 |
Decadence | 265 |
Bibliography | 293 |
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