Figuring Sex Between Men from Shakespeare to RochesterClarendon Press, 2002 - 281 páginas The first focuses on the way Shakespeare adapted his sources to introduce the possibility of sexual relations between male characters, with special attention to Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice, and the Sonnets, and shows how these elements were removed in later adaptations of his plays and poems. Subsequent chapters chart the often satirical representation of homosexual rulers from James I to William III; the ambiguous sexuality figured in the poetry of Andrew Marvell; and the libertine homoeroticism of the poetry of the Earl of Rochester. The book draws on a wide range of poems, plays, letters, and pamphlets, and discusses a substantial amount of previously unknown material from both printed and manuscript sources."--Jacket. |
Contenido
FIGURING SEX BETWEEN MEN | 5 |
Definition and Indefinition | 16 |
Potential Spaces | 38 |
SHAKESPEARIAN FIGURES | 62 |
Shakespeares Play and their Italian Sources | 87 |
The Erasure of Homoeroticism from Shakepears Text | 101 |
POLITICS AND SODOMY | 117 |
James I and his Favourites | 128 |
MARVELLS AMBIGUITIES | 186 |
The Pamphlet Attacks on Marvell | 187 |
Marvells Poetry | 204 |
ROCHESTER AND RESTORATION HOMOEROTICISM | 226 |
Rochesters Male Relationships | 235 |
Sex Between Men in Rochesters Poetry | 241 |
CONCLUSION | 255 |
Bibliography | 259 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
allusion ambiguities Andrew Marvell Antonio Aufidius Barnfield Bassanio beauty body boy's buggery Cambridge Charles Coriolanus court Coy Mistress Drayton Dryden Duncan-Jones Earl of Rochester echoes Edward English erotic eyes favourites figures friendship Ganymede Gaveston Gl'Ingannati hath heart heterosexual homo homoerotic homoerotic desire homoeroticism homosexual homosexual desire homosocial Ibid imagined James James's kind King kisses language lines London lover male manuscript Marvell masculine Merchant of Venice molly houses Narcissus narrative Oates's Oldisworth Ovid Oxford pamphlets passion pastoral perhaps play pleasure poem poet poet's political readers reference Rehearsal Transpros'd relationship Renaissance Restoration rhetorical Rochester's satirical says seems sexual behaviour sexual interest Shakespeare Shakespeare's Sonnets social sodomy song Sonnet 13 Sonnet 20 Sonnet 42 space stanza story suggests sweet texts thee Thomas thou tion Titus Oates translation Turks Twelfth Night verses Villiers William woman women word writing young youth καὶ