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Constructions of Female Homoeroticism in Early Modern Drama

Constructions of Female Homoeroticism in Early Modern Drama

Walen, D.

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Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500-1700

Literary CriticismPlays

ISBN10: 1349530867
ISBN13: 9781349530861
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Sep 8 2005
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.51 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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.

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