TY  - GEN
T1  - On the queerness of early English drama : sex in the subjunctive
A1  - Pugh, Tison
LA  - English
PP  - Toronto ; Buffalo ; London
PB  - University of Toronto Press
YR  - 2021
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1226516144
AB  - "Often viewed as theologically conservative, many theatrical works of late medieval and early Tudor England nevertheless exploited the performative nature of drama to flirt with unsanctioned expressions of desire, allowing queer identities and themes to emerge. Early plays faced vexing challenges in depicting sexuality, but modes of queerness, including queer scopophilia, queer dialogue, queer characters, and queer performances, fractured prevailing restraints. Many of these plays were produced within male homosocial environments, and thus homosociality served as a narrative precondition of their storylines. Building from these foundations, On the Queerness of Early English Drama investigates occluded depictions of sexuality in late medieval and early Tudor dramas. Tison Pugh explores a range of topics, including the unstable genders of the York Corpus Christi Plays, the morally instructive humour of excremental allegory in Mankind, the confused relationship of sodomy and chastity in John Bale's historical interludes, and the camp artifice and queer carnival of Sir David Lyndsay's Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis. Pugh concludes with Terrence McNally's Corpus Christi, pondering the afterlife of medieval drama and its continued utility in probing cultural constructions of gender and sexuality."--
OP  - 241
CN  - PR641 .P84 2021eb
SN  - 9781487538873
SN  - 1487538863
SN  - 1487538871
SN  - 9781487538866
SN  - 9781487508746
SN  - 1487508743
KW  - English drama : To 1500 : History and criticism.
KW  - Sexual minorities in literature.
KW  - Gender identity in literature.
KW  - Sex in literature.
KW  - Sexual orientation in literature.
KW  - Homosexuality in literature.
KW  - Desire in literature.
KW  - Théâtre anglais : Jusqu'à 1500 : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Minorités sexuelles dans la littérature.
KW  - Identité de genre dans la littérature.
KW  - Sexualité dans la littérature.
KW  - Orientation sexuelle dans la littérature.
KW  - Homosexualité dans la littérature.
KW  - Désir dans la littérature.
KW  - DRAMA / Medieval
KW  - Desire in literature
KW  - English drama
KW  - Gender identity in literature
KW  - Homosexuality in literature
KW  - Sex in literature
KW  - Sexual minorities in literature
KW  - Sexual orientation in literature
KW  - LGBTQ+ literature
KW  - To 1500
KW  - David Lyndsay.
KW  - Everyman.
KW  - John Bale.
KW  - Terrence McNally.
KW  - Tudor.
KW  - York Corpus Christi Plays.
KW  - allegory.
KW  - drama.
KW  - early English drama.
KW  - medieval.
KW  - morality plays.
KW  - queer scopophilia.
KW  - queer.
KW  - sexuality.
KW  - theatre.
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
KW  - Literary criticism
KW  - Literary criticism.
KW  - Critiques littéraires.
ER  -