Constructions of Female Homoeroticism in Early Modern Drama

by Denise Walen

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349530867
• ISBN13: 9781349530861
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"