On the Queerness of Early English Drama : : Sex in the Subjunctive / / Tison Pugh.
Often viewed as theologically conservative, many theatrical works of late medieval and early Tudor England nevertheless exploited the performative nature of drama to flirt with unsanctioned expressions of desire, allowing queer identities and themes to emerge. Early plays faced vexing challenges in...
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| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Quem quaeritis? Queerness in Early English Drama
- PART ONE Queer Theories and Themes of Early English Drama
- Chapter One A Subjunctive Theory of Dramatic Queerness
- Chapter Two Themes of Friendship and Sodomy
- PART TWO Queer Readings of Early English Drama
- Chapter Three Performative Typology, Jewish Genders, and Jesus’s Queer Romance in the York Corpus Christi Plays
- Chapter Four Excremental Desire, Queer Allegory, and the Disidentified Audience of Mankind
- Chapter Five Sodomy, Chastity, and Queer Historiography in John Bale’s Interludes
- Chapter Six Camp and the Hermaphroditic Gaze in Sir David Lyndsay’s Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis
- Conclusion Terrence McNally’s Corpus Christi and the Queer Legacy of Early English Drama
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index