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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... never a Maid ? Bar : We have a Servant - but she breaks more things than her Maidenhead's worth , which I am told is irretrievable . ( 31 ) When the subject of effeminacy comes up , with reference to Sir John Thought- less , who carries ...
... Never was such a termagant ! Ach : By Jove , never was such an insult ! Lycom : Will you ? -Dare you ? -Never was such strength ! - ( Achilles pushes him from him with great violence , and throws him down . ) Ach : Desist then . Lycom ...
... never found a place ... Nor think thyself in law secure and firm , Thy master is a lord , and thou a worm , A poor mean reptile , never meant to think , Who , being well supplied with meat and drink , And suffer'd just to crawl from ...
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Melodramas and Marjories | 243 |
Decadence | 265 |
Bibliography | 293 |
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