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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... Theatre , demonstrated the bawdy looseness of Killigrew's play . After 1672 when the Theatre Royal burned down , the King's Company pro- duced three plays acted only by women to attract audiences : The Parson's Wedding ( evidently a ...
... Theatre on 24 March 1845. Written by Gilbert Abbott A'Beckett , Timour , the Cream of All the Tartars is a two - act spoof of Lewis's melodrama in rhymed iambic pentameter . The burlesque reemphasizes the pederastic rela- tionship ...
... Theatre a week later and closed at the end of the month . Earnest , running since February at the St. James Theatre , continued playing until 8 May , with the author's name removed from all the publicity . Although Earnest had a ...
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Melodramas and Marjories | 243 |
Decadence | 265 |
Bibliography | 293 |
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