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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... same - sex love was on the decline or rather , it reflected a different taste in beauty . The glorified ath- letic ... desire was not in any way condemned , an adult man's enjoying passive anal intercourse was portrayed as being unnatural .
... same - sex activities ) ; 25 and , finally , the weasel , which carries its young in its mouth , was made a ... desire is " unnatural . " Same - sex intercourse cannot be procreative ; hence , it is hedonis- tic - pleasurable in itself ...
... sex attraction each feels for men . Catherine , for example , speaking of her friend Isabella to the husband she ... same- sex desire is infinitely more life - affirming than opposite - sex attraction . In 1701 , The Double Distress by ...
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Melodramas and Marjories | 243 |
Decadence | 265 |
Bibliography | 293 |
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