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Figuring sex between men from Shakespeare to Rochester [electronic resource] / Paul Hammond

Author
Hammond, Paul, 1953-
Published
Oxford : Clarendon, 2002.
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 281 pages)
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Figuring Sex Between Men -- Reading the Past -- Definition and Indefinition -- Potential Spaces -- 2.Shakespearian Figures -- Shakespeare's Sonnets: The Rhetoric of Possession and Dispossession -- Shakespeare's Play and their Italian Sources -- The Erasure of Homoeroticism from Shakespeare's Texts -- 3.Politics and 'Sodomy' -- Edward II and Gaveston -- James I and his Favourites -- Sodomy and Civil War -- Titus Oates -- William III -- 4.Marvell's Ambiguities -- The Pamphlet Attacks on Marvell -- Marvell's Poetry -- 5.Rochester and Restoration Homoeroticism -- Restoration Homoeroticism -- Rochester's Male Relationships -- Sex between Men in Rochester's Poetry.
Summary
Paul Hammond explores the representation of sexual relations between men in English literature of the 17th century. He includes detailed readings of Shakespeare's sonnets, and shows how his plays added homosexual elements to his source stories.
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ISBN
9780191674617 (ebook)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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