Constructions of female homoeroticism in early modern drama /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
Denise A. Walen.
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
1st ed.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave Macmillan,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2005.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (x, 230 pages) :
Other Physical Details
illustrations
SERIES
Series Title
Early modern cultural studies
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-219) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
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.
ACQUISITION INFORMATION NOTE
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Palgrave Macmillan
Stock Number
302920
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Constructions of female homoeroticism in early modern drama.
International Standard Book Number
9781403968753
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
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.