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Before the Closet - Same-Sex Love from "Beowulf" to "Angels in America" (Paperback, 2nd Ed.)
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Before the Closet - Same-Sex Love from "Beowulf" to "Angels in America" (Paperback, 2nd Ed.)
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This study challenges the long-held belief that the early Middle
Ages tolerated and even fostered same-sex relations and that
intolerance of homosexuality developed only late in the medieval
period. Th e text argues that early medieval Christians did not
tolerate same-sex acts and, furthermore, that men and women during
this time who preferred homosexual relations pursued their desires
in spite of official sanctions. This was an age before people
recognized the existence - or the possibility - of the "closet".
This work focuses on Anglo-Saxon literature but also includes
examinations of contemporary opera, dance and theatre. The text
employs the figure of the shadow to illustrate the coexistence of
homosexual and heterosexual relations in the Middle Ages. The
figure is introduced through an analysis of a man's part sung by a
woman in operas such as Gounod's "Faust". The reverse figure - men
taking women's parts - is traced in two dances by Mark Morris, "The
Hard Nut" and "Dido and Aeneas". Also analyzed is the white
Anglo-Saxon Protestant in Tony Kushner's play, "Angels in America"
and the poems, "Beowulf" and "The Wanderer".
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