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Record Nr.

UNINA9910961592303321

Autore

Walen Denise A

Titolo

Constructions of Female Homoeroticism in Early Modern Drama / / by D. Walen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2005

ISBN

9786611364670

9781281364678

1281364673

9781403981066

140398106X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2005.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500-1700, , 2634-5900

Disciplina

822/.309353

Soggetti

European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600

Theater - History

Sex

Early Modern and Renaissance Literature

Theatre History

Gender Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-219) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.