Sodomy and Interpretation: Marlowe to MiltonA wide-ranging account of the significance of sodomy in the rich discourse of early modern England from 1590 to 1660. The author sets for a challenging reinterpretation of the historicity of homosexuality, reading a variety of Renaissance texts in the light of the work of such contemporary theorists as Foucault, Kristeva, Deleuze, Guattari, Hocquenghem, Derrida, and Althusser. -- adapted from back cover |
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... earth ; Yea , on the lips of many shalt thou lie The comrade of their banquet and their mirth . Youths in their loveliness shall make thee sound Upon the silver lute's melodious breath ; And when thou goest darkling underground Down to ...
... earth ; Yea , on the lips of many shalt thou lie The comrade of their banquet and their mirth . Youths in their loveliness shall make thee sound Upon the silver lute's melodious breath ; And when thou goest darkling underground Down to ...
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... earth below Fails in the promis'd largeness : checks and disasters Grow in the veins of actions highest rear'd , As knots , by the conflux of meeting sap , Infects the sound pine and diverts his grain Tortive and errant from his course ...
... earth below Fails in the promis'd largeness : checks and disasters Grow in the veins of actions highest rear'd , As knots , by the conflux of meeting sap , Infects the sound pine and diverts his grain Tortive and errant from his course ...
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... earth , the common mother of us all , By heaven , and all the moving orbs thereof , By this right hand , and by my father's sword , And all the honours ' longing to my crown , I will have heads and lives for him , as many As I have ...
... earth , the common mother of us all , By heaven , and all the moving orbs thereof , By this right hand , and by my father's sword , And all the honours ' longing to my crown , I will have heads and lives for him , as many As I have ...
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References to this book
Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare's England: A Cultural Poetics Bruce R. Smith No preview available - 1995 |