Constructions of Female Homoeroticism in Early Modern Drama.
Title:
Constructions of Female Homoeroticism in Early Modern Drama.
Author:
Walen, Denise.
ISBN:
9781403981066
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (240 pages)
Series:
Early Modern Cultural Studies Series
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Eidolic Lesbian in Early Modern England -- 2 Playfully Emergent Lesbian Erotics -- 3 Anxiously Emergent Lesbian Erotics -- 4 Predatory Lesbian Erotics -- 5 Utopian Lesbian Erotics -- Conclusion -- Appendix: List of Plays -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.
Abstract:
Constructions of Female Homoeroticism in Early Modern Drama explores textual representations of love and desire between female characters in a number of 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. This book analyzes a significant body of dramatic texts, many identified for the first time, that reveal the way playwrights conceived of desire between women, including Philaster, Hymen's Triumph, The Lover's Melancholy, The Doubtful Heir, A Christian Turn'd Turk, Orgula, and others.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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