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BL
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974940
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b729310
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DiGangi, Mario.
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| Title & Author
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The homoerotics of early modern drama /\ Mario DiGangi.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 1997.
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| Series Statement
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Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ;; 21
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1 online resource (xi, 216 pages)
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| ISBN
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0511005008
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: 9780511005008
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| Notes
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Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-208) and index.
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| Contents
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1. Introduction -- 2. The homoerotics of marriage in Ovidian comedy -- 3. The homoerotics of mastery in satiric comedy -- 4. The homoerotics of favoritism in tragedy -- 5. The homoerotics of masculinity in tragicomedy.
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| Abstract
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This book is the first comprehensive account of homoeroticism in Renaissance drama. Mario DiGangi analyses the relation between homoeroticism and social power in a wide range of literary and historical texts from the 1580s to the 1620s, drawing on the insights of materialist, feminist and queer theory. Each chapter focuses on the homoerotics of a major dramatic genre (Ovidian comedy, satiric comedy, tragedy and tragicomedy) and studies the ideologies and institutions it characteristically explores. DiGangi examines distinctions between orderly and disorderly forms of homoerotic practice in both canonical and unfamiliar texts. In these readings, the various proliferating forms of homoeroticism are indentified in relation to sodomy, against which there were cultural and legal prohibitions in the period. DiGangi's study illuminates, through a diverse range of plays, the centrality of homoerotic practices to household, court and city life in early modern England.
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English drama-- 17th century-- History and criticism.
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English drama-- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600-- History and criticism.
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Eroticism in literature.
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Homosexuality and literature-- England-- History.
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Literature and society-- England-- History.
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Order in literature.
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Politics and literature-- England-- History.
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Renaissance-- England.
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Sex in literature.
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Sodomy in literature.
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DRAMA-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English drama-- Early modern and Elizabethan.
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English drama.
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Eroticism in literature.
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Homosexuality and literature.
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Literature and society.
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Order in literature.
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Politics and literature.
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Renaissance.
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Sex in literature.
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Sodomy in literature.
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Homoseksualiteit.
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Renaissance.
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Toneelstukken.
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England.
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| Dewey Classification
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822/.309353
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| LC Classification
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PR658.H58D54 1997eb
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| NLM classification
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18.05bcl
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