Title: The homoerotics of early modern drama /
Authors: DiGangi, Mario.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 1997
Subjects: English drama History and criticism; English drama History and criticism; Homosexuality and literature England History.; Politics and literature England History.; Literature and society England History.; Eroticism in literature.; Sodomy in literature.; Renaissance England; Order in literature.; Sex in literature
Abstract: DiGangi analyses the relation between homoeroticism and social power in a range of literary and historical texts from the 1580s to the 1620s, drawing on insights from materialist, queer and feminist theory to show the centrality of homoerotic practices.
Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. The homoerotics of marriage in Ovidian comedy -- 3. The homoerotics of mastery in satiric comedy -- 4. The homoerotics of favoritism in tragedy -- 5. The homoerotics of masculinity in tragicomedy.