Homosexual desire in Shakespeare's England : a cultural poetics
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Homosexual desire in Shakespeare's England : a cultural poetics
University of Chicago Press, 1991
Available at 35 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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. Smith's new Preface places his work in the context of the continuing controversies in gay, lesbian, and bisexual studies.
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