Constructions of female homoeroticism in early modern drama / Denise A. Walen.
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 const...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2005.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Early modern cultural studies.
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 230 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-219) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781403981066 140398106X 1403968756 9781403968753 1281364673 9781281364678 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |