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Figuring sex between men from Shakespeare to Rochester / Paul Hammond.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR428.H66 H36 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hammond, Paul, 1953-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Homosexuality and literature--England--History--16th century.
- Homosexuality and literature.
- Homosexuality and literature--England--History--17th century.
- Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, 1647-1680.
- Rochester, John Wilmot.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Male homosexuality in literature.
- Sexual orientation in literature.
- Gay men in literature.
- History.
- England.
- Sexual orientation.
- Physical Description:
- x, 281 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- Paul Hammond explores the representation of sexual relations between men in English literature of the seventeenth century. He includes detailed readings of Shakespeare's Sonnets, and shows how his plays added homosexual elements to his source stories. He also analyses the satirical representation of homosexual kings such as James I and William III, and the homoerotic poetry of Marvell and Rochester.
- Contents:
- 1 Figuring Sex Between Men 5
- Reading the Past 5
- Definition and Indefinition 16
- Potential Spaces 38
- 2 Shakespearian Figures 62
- Shakespeare's Sonnets: The Rhetoric of Possession and Dispossession 62
- Shakespeare's Plays and their Italian Sources 87
- The Erasure of Homoeroticism from Shakespeare's Texts 101
- 3 Politics and 'Sodomy' 117
- Edward II and Gaveston 117
- James I and his Favourites 128
- Sodomy and Civil War 150
- Titus Oates 155
- William III 172
- 4 Marvell's Ambiguities 186
- The Pamphlet Attacks on Marvell 187
- Marvell's Poetry 204
- 5 Rochester and Restoration Homoeroticism 226
- Restoration Homoeroticism 226
- Rochester's Male Relationships 235
- Sex between Men in Rochester's Poetry 241.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-276) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0198186924
- 0198186932
- OCLC:
- 49959397
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