Constructions of female homoeroticism in early modern drama /
[Book]
Denise A. Walen.
1st ed.
New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2005.
1 online resource (x, 230 pages) :
illustrations
Early modern cultural studies
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-219) and index.
The Eidolic Lesbian in Early Modern England -- Playfully Emergent Lesbian Erotics -- Anxiously Emergent Lesbian Erotics -- Predatory Lesbian Erotics -- Utopian Lesbian Erotics.
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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.
Palgrave Macmillan
302920
Constructions of female homoeroticism in early modern drama.
9781403968753
English drama-- 17th century-- History and criticism.
English drama-- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600-- History and criticism.
Homosexuality and literature-- England-- History-- 16th century.
Homosexuality and literature-- England-- History-- 17th century.