Constructions of Female Homoeroticism in Early Modern Drama

D. Walen (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

230 Seiten

2005
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-4039-6875-3 (ISBN)

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This book explores representations of love and desire between female characters in nearly seventy plays written between 1580 and 1660. The work argues that playwrights of late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England recognized and constructed richly diverse tropes of female homoerotic desire. Writers place female characters in erotic situations with other female characters in playful scenarios of mistaken identity, in anxious moments of amorous intrigue, in predatory situations and in enthusiastic, utopian representations of romantic love. These plays indicate an awareness of female homoeroticism in early modern England and belie statements that literary evidence of homosexuality was concerned primarily with men.

DENISE WALEN is Associate Professor of Drama at Vassar College, USA.

The Eidolic Lesbian in Early Modern England Playfully Emergent Lesbian Erotics Anxiously Emergent Lesbian Erotics Predatory Lesbian Erotics Utopian Lesbian Erotics Conclusion

Erscheint lt. Verlag	8.9.2005
Reihe/Serie	Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700
Zusatzinfo	2 Illustrations, black and white; X, 230 p. 2 illus.
Verlagsort	Gordonsville
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-4039-6875-6 / 1403968756
ISBN-13	978-1-4039-6875-3 / 9781403968753
Zustand	Neuware