On the queerness of early English drama : sex in the subjunctive / Tison Pugh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pugh, Tison, author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama--To 1500--History and criticism.

English drama.

Gay erotic literature, English--England--Early works to 1800--History and criticism.

Gay erotic literature, English.

Homosexuality in literature.

Sexual minorities in literature.

Gender identity in literature.

Sex in literature.

Sexual orientation in literature.

Desire in literature.

Eroticism in literature.

England.

LGBTQ+ literature.

LGBTQ+ people.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Drama.

Physical Description:

241 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2021]

Summary:

"On the Queerness of Early English Drama is a wonderful, original, persuasive, and much-needed intervention in early drama studies. Insightful in both its parts and its whole, this book builds on itself - it's not merely or only an application of a theory in four parts, but a cohesive whole." --

Christina Fitzgerald, Professor of English Literature, University of Toledo --

"On the Queerness of Early English Drama fills a critical gap: no other full-length monograph has as yet dealt with early English drama from a queer perspective or indeed in relation to sexuality more generally." --

Garrett P.J. Epp, Professor Emeritus of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta --Book Jacket.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. One Queer Theories and Themes of Early English Drama

1. A Subjunctive Theory of Dramatic Queerness

2. Themes of Friendship and Sodomy

pt. Two Queer Readings of Early English Drama

3. Performative Typology, Jewish Genders, and Jesus's Queer Romance in the York Corpus Christi Plays

4. Excremental Desire, Queer Allegory, and the Disidentified Audience of Mankind

5. Sodomy, Chastity, and Queer Historiography in John Bale's Interludes

6. Camp and the Hermaphroditic Gaze in Sir David Lyndsay's Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-234) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Pugh, Tison. On the queerness of early English drama.

ISBN:

9781487508746

1487508743

OCLC:

1223013557

Publisher Number:

99991375702