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Homosexualities in the English Theatre: From Lyly to Wilde  
Author: John C. Franceschina
ISBN: 0313300348
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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Book Description
Scholars have given increasing amounts of attention to the place of homosexuality in different periods of English cultural and literary history. This book is a broad survey of representations of homosexuality in the English theatre from the Renaissance to the late 19th century. It draws on scholarship from a wide range of disciplines, including sociology, history, psychology, literature, and drama. The first chapter provides a background for the book by discussing the nature of same-sex behavior in the ancient and medieval worlds. The chapters that follow discuss such topics as sodomy and transvestite theatre in the Renaisssance; female transvestism on the English stage during the 17th century; bisexuality in 18th-century drama; the rise of English homophobia and the proliferation of lesbian relationships in England between 1745 and 1790; the homophobic context of English theatre during the Romantic Movement (1790-1835); and the rebirth of interest in Greek thought and its associations with same-sex poetry, drama, and pornography in the Victorian era (1840-1900).

About the Author
JOHN FRANCESCHINA is Associate Professor of Theatre Arts at the Pennsylvania State University.




Homosexualities in the English Theatre: From Lyly to Wilde

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Scholars have given increasing amounts of attention to the place of homosexuality in different periods of English cultural and literary history. This book is a broad survey of representations of homosexuality in the English theatre from the Renaissance to the late 19th century. It draws on scholarship from a wide range of disciplines, including sociology, history, psychology, literature, and drama. The first chapter provides a background for the book by discussing the nature of same-sex behavior in the ancient and medieval worlds. The chapters that follow discuss such topics as sodomy and transvestite theatre in the Renaisssance; female transvestism on the English stage during the 17th century; bisexuality in 18th-century drama; the rise of English homophobia and the proliferation of lesbian relationships in England between 1745 and 1790; the homophobic context of English theatre during the Romantic Movement (1790-1835); and the rebirth of interest in Greek thought and its associations with same-sex poetry, drama, and pornography in the Victorian era (1840-1900).

SYNOPSIS

Examines representations of homosexuality in the English theatre from the Renaissance to the close of the 19th century.

FROM THE CRITICS

Booknews

Franceschina (theater arts, Pennsylvania State U.) examines same-sex discourse in plays spanning over two centuries, and surveys postmodern critical responses to gender issues in order to re-evaluate and reinscribe traditional notions of gender and same-sex behavior. His treatment is essentially descriptive as he applies insights from sociology, history, psychology, literature, and drama to both familiar and little known works. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

     



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