Title: Homoerotic space
Description: "Sexual politics in the Renaissance dictated a strong opposition to any kind of homoerotic attachments, or discussion thereof, forcing Renaissance poets and playwrights to find other means of representing these connections. In this compelling and intriguing work, Stephen Guy-Bray argues that early modern authors used renditions of Theocritan and Virgilian pastoral, as well as epic poetry, for the exploration and the allusive presentation of homoerotic and homosocial themes." "Drawing on poetry and plays by such authors as Castiglione, the Earl of Surrey, Milton, Spenser, Barnfield, William Browne, Shakespeare, and Beaumont and Fletcher, Guy-Bray investigates how some authors used these classical models to represent homoeroticism, while others found the inherent homoeroticism of these poems to be problematic. Discussing both content and form of Renaissance and Classical literature, Guy-Bray's work engages in an important and frequently heated debate about the history of homoeroticism as well as questions of literary history and the interpretation of texts."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Appreciation, Classical Pastoral poetry, Classical influences, Classicism, English literature, History, History and criticism, Homosexuality and literature, Loss (Psychology) in literature, Male authors, Male in literature Homosexuality, Poetics, Homosexuality in literature, European literature, Literature, history and criticism, English literature, history and criticism, early modern, 1500-1700, Male homosexuality in literature
Places: England
People: Theocritus, Virgil
Time periods: 16th century, 17th century, Early modern, 1500-1700