Constructions of Female Homoeroticism in Early Modern Drama (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)

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.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500-1700
Release date:	September 2005
First published:	2005
Authors:	D. Walen
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	230
Edition:	2005 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4039-6875-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays > General
LSN:	1-4039-6875-6
Barcode:	9781403968753

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