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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... present no problem to an Elizabethan audience since spectators were accustomed to watching boys parade as girls on stage . In The Maydes Metamorphosis , the shepherdess Eu- rymine is transformed into a man by Apollo . An astrologer ...
... present the male transvestite as an unusual figure . Rather , the author claims , " The streets are full of juggling parasites / With the true shape of virgins ' counterfeits . ( 8 : 133 ) The transvestite boy was a favorite Renaissance ...
... Present . 2 vols . New York : Harper & Row , 1988 . Aronson , Theo . Prince Eddy and the Homosexual Underworld . London : John Murray , 1994 . [ Ashbee , Henry Spencer ] . Centuria Librorum Absconditorum . London : Privately printed ...
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Melodramas and Marjories | 243 |
Decadence | 265 |
Bibliography | 293 |
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