Clothing and Queer Style in Early Modern English Drama

by James Bromley

This book examines early modern drama's depiction of non-standard forms of masculinity grounded in superficiality, inauthenticity, affectation, and the display of the extravagantly clothed body. Practices of extravagant dress destabilized distinctions between able-bodied and disabled, human and non-human, and the past and present, distinctions that structure normative ways of thinking about sexuality. In city comedies by Ben Jonson, George Chapman,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198867824
• ISBN13: 9780198867821
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"