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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... society . Clearly , then , the society both embraces and rejects the theatre . How can we account for these opposing views ? In Renaissance Self - Fashioning , Stephen Greenblatt argues that Marlowe's heroes remain embedded in what they ...
... society is being imitated from below , it is embarrassed by the suborder . Inversion becomes a kind of transgressive reinscription : the subcul- ture , replicating itself in terms of the dominant society , demystifies that society in ...
... society in general . This polemical activity was accompanied by an increase of social cross- dressing , which simply mirrored the prevalent practice onstage . In 1704 , Eliza- beth Morris dressed as a man and enlisted as a soldier in ...
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Melodramas and Marjories | 243 |
Decadence | 265 |
Bibliography | 293 |
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