The Minor Poems of Lyndesay

The Minor Poems of Lyndesay
Author: John Nichol
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2022-09-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3368126091

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.

Works

Works
Author: David Lindsay
Publisher:
Total Pages: 60
Release: 1868
Genre:
ISBN:

On the Queerness of Early English Drama

On the Queerness of Early English Drama
Author: Tison Pugh
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2021-02-01
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1487538871

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