Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare's England: A Cultural Poetics
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In the most comprehensive study yet of homosexuality in the English Renaissance, Bruce R. Smith examines and rejects the assessments of homosexual acts in moral philosophy, laws, and medical books in favor of a poetics of homosexual desire. Smith isolates six different "myths" from classical literature and discusses each in relation to a particular Renaissance literary genre and to a particular part of the social structure of early modern England...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0226763668
ISBN13:9780226763668
Release Date:March 1995
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:344 Pages
Weight:1.24 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"
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