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Constructions of Female Homoeroticism in Early Modern Drama

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  • © 2005

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Authors:
  1. Denise A. Walen
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Part of the book series: Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700 (EMCSS)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Denise A. Walen
    Pages 1-22

  3. The Eidolic Lesbian in Early Modern England

    • Denise A. Walen
    Pages 23-49

  4. Playfully Emergent Lesbian Erotics

    • Denise A. Walen
    Pages 51-77

  5. Anxiously Emergent Lesbian Erotics

    • Denise A. Walen
    Pages 79-102

  6. Predatory Lesbian Erotics

    • Denise A. Walen
    Pages 103-120

  7. Utopian Lesbian Erotics

    • Denise A. Walen
    Pages 121-148

  8. Conclusion

    • Denise A. Walen
    Pages 149-155

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 157-230
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About this book

This book explores representations of love and desire between female characters in nearly seventy plays written between 1580 and 1660. The work argues that playwrights of late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England recognized and constructed richly diverse tropes of female homoerotic desire. Writers place female characters in erotic situations with other female characters in playful scenarios of mistaken identity, in anxious moments of amorous intrigue, in predatory situations and in enthusiastic, utopian representations of romantic love. These plays indicate an awareness of female homoeroticism in early modern England and belie statements that literary evidence of homosexuality was concerned primarily with men.

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DENISE WALEN is Associate Professor of Drama at Vassar College, USA.

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