Free Download On the Queerness of Early English Drama: Sex in the Subjunctive by Tison Pugh
English | February 26, 2021 | ISBN: 1487508743 | True EPUB | 256 pages | 1.2 MB
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 depicting sexuality, but modes of queerness, including queer scopophilia, queer dialogue, queer characters, and queer performances, fractured prevailing restraints. Many of these plays were produced within male homosocial environments, and thus homosociality served as a narrative precondition of their storylines.