Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare's England: A Cultural Poetics

by Bruce R. Smith

Book Overview

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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226763641
• ISBN13: 9780226763644
• Release Date: July 1991
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"