On the Queerness of Early English Drama : Sex in the Subjunctive /
"Often viewed as theologically conservative, many theatrical works of late medieval and early Tudor England nevertheless exploited the performative nature of drama to flirt with unsanctioned expressions of desire, allowing queer identities and themes to emerge. Early plays faced vexing challeng...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
University of Toronto Press,
2021.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Quem quaeritis? Queerness in Early English Drama
- Part One: Queer Theories and Themes of Early English Drama : A Subjunctive Theory of Dramatic Queerness
- Themes of Friendship and Sodomy
- Part Two: Queer Readings of Early English Drama : Performative Typology, Jewish Genders, and Jesus's Queer Romance in the York Corpus Christi Plays
- Excremental Desire, Queer Allegory, and the Disidentified Audience of Mankind
- Sodomy, Chastity, and Queer Historiography in John Bale's Interludes
- Camp and the Hermaphroditic Gaze in Sir David Lyndsay's Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis
- Conclusion: Terrence McNally's Corpus Christi and the Queer Legacy of Early English Drama.