03423nam 22007935 450 991096159230332120240312125004.09786611364670978128136467812813646739781403981066140398106X10.1057/9781403981066(CKB)1000000000342745(EBL)307693(OCoLC)314828727(SSID)ssj0000129396(PQKBManifestationID)11145846(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000129396(PQKBWorkID)10079223(PQKB)11401209(DE-He213)978-1-4039-8106-6(MiAaPQ)EBC307693(Au-PeEL)EBL307693(CaPaEBR)ebr10135392(CaONFJC)MIL136467(Perlego)3497063(EXLCZ)99100000000034274520151127d2005 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrConstructions of Female Homoeroticism in Early Modern Drama /by D. Walen1st ed. 2005.New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2005.1 online resource (241 p.)Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500-1700,2634-5900Description based upon print version of record.9781349530861 1349530867 9781403968753 1403968756 Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-219) and index.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; IndexThis 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.Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500-1700,2634-5900European literatureRenaissance, 1450-1600TheaterHistorySexEarly Modern and Renaissance LiteratureTheatre HistoryGender StudiesEuropean literatureTheaterHistory.Sex.Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.Theatre History.Gender Studies.822/.309353Walen Denise A1792485MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910961592303321Constructions of Female Homoeroticism in Early Modern Drama4331144UNINA