Queer Virgins and Virgin Queens on the Early Modern Stage

by Mary Bly

Queer Virgins and Virgin Queans looks at the early modern theater through the lens of obscure and obscene puns--especially "queer" puns, those that carry homoerotic resonances and speak to homoerotic desires. In particular, it resurrects the operations of a small boys' company known as the first Whitefriars, which performed for about nine months in 1607-8. As a group, the plays performed by this company exhibit an unusually dense array of bawdy puns,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198186991
• ISBN13: 9780198186991
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"