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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... woman , he is revealed to be none by his master , " It may be so , and yet we have lain together , / But by my troth I never found her , Lady " ( 10 : 277 ) . Though the play seems to turn on the theatrical convention of a woman's cross ...
... woman as any woman that departs from proper modesty , despite what she wears . She is a symptom of a wider decline in the family . Likewise , Haec Vir is not just an effeminate man but a symbol of decadent " Gentrie " " that anciently ...
... Woman is a Riddle , Phillis , and I think you are now going to make it out ! Get herself with Child ! -Well , that ... Woman's been sporting , as Phillis has done , When her Belly grows plump , and her Face looks wan , She bewails her ...
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Melodramas and Marjories | 243 |
Decadence | 265 |
Bibliography | 293 |
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