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On the queerness of early English drama : sex in the subjunctive
- Title
- On the queerness of early English drama : sex in the subjunctive / Tison Pugh.
- Author
- Pugh, Tison
- Publication
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2021]
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Details
- Description
- 241 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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. Building from these foundations, On the Queerness of Early English Drama investigates occluded depictions of sexuality in late medieval and early Tudor dramas. Tison Pugh explores a range of topics, including the unstable genders of the York Corpus Christi Plays, the morally instructive humour of excremental allegory in Mankind, the confused relationship of sodomy and chastity in John Bale's historical interludes, and the camp artifice and queer carnival of Sir David Lyndsay's Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis. Pugh concludes with Terrence McNally's Corpus Christi, pondering the afterlife of medieval drama and its continued utility in probing cultural constructions of gender and sexuality."--
- Subject
- To 1500
- English drama > To 1500 > History and criticism
- Sexual minorities in literature
- Gender identity in literature
- Sex in literature
- Sexual orientation in literature
- Homosexuality in literature
- Desire in literature
- Eroticism in literature
- Gay erotic literature, English > England > Early works to 1800 > History and criticism
- Gay erotic drama > Early works to 1800 > History and criticism
- English drama
- England
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-234) and index.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic formats.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-7347
- ISBN
- 9781487508746
- 1487508743
- OCLC
- 1223013557
- Author
- Pugh, Tison, author.
- Title
- On the queerness of early English drama : sex in the subjunctive / Tison Pugh.
- Publisher
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2021]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-234) and index.
- Additional Formats
- Issued also in electronic formats.
- Chronological Term
- To 1500
- Other Form:
- Online version: Pugh, Tison. On the queerness of early English drama. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2021 1487538863 9781487538866 (OCoLC)1226516144
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-7347