Clothing And Queer Style In Early Modern English Drama
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Clothing And Queer Style In Early Modern English Drama
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Author : James M. Bromley
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021
Clothing And Queer Style In Early Modern English Drama written by James M. Bromley and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book examines early modern drama's depiction of non-standard forms of masculinity grounded in superficiality, inauthenticity, affectation, and the display of the extravagantly clothed body. Practices of extravagant dress destabilized distinctions between able-bodied and disabled, human and non-human, and the past and present, distinctions that structure normative ways of thinking about sexuality. In city comedies by Ben Jonson, George Chapman, Thomas Middleton, and Thomas Dekker, extravagantly dressed male characters imagine alternatives to the prevailing modes of subjectivity, sociability, and eroticism in early modern London. While these characters are situated in hostile narrative and historical contexts, this book draws on recent work on disability, materiality, and queer temporality to rethink their relationship to those contexts in order to access the world-making possibilities of early modern queer style. In their rich representations of life in London around the turn of the seventeenth century, these plays not only were, but also remain, uniquely sensitive to the intersection of sexuality, urbanization, and material culture. The attachments and pleasures of early modern sartorial extravagance they depict can estrange us from the epistemologies that narrow current thinking about sexuality's relationship to authenticity, pedagogy, interiority, and privacy.
Pure Resistance
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Author : Theodora A. Jankowski
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2000-07-04
Pure Resistance written by Theodora A. Jankowski and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-07-04 with Drama categories.
Noting that though Christian thought has consistently held virginity to be purer than married life, a virgin woman has always queer been in social terms, Jankowsky (English, Washington State U.) explores the tensions behind the many representations of virgin women in English stage plays from 1590 to about 1670 and how those representations can be considered queer. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
The Homoerotics Of Early Modern Drama
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Author : Mario DiGangi
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1997-09-04
The Homoerotics Of Early Modern Drama written by Mario DiGangi and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-09-04 with Drama categories.
DiGangi analyses the relation between homoeroticism and social power in a range of literary and historical texts from the 1580s to the 1620s, drawing on insights from materialist, queer and feminist theory to show the centrality of homoerotic practices.
Male To Female Crossdressing In Early Modern English Literature
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Author : Simone Chess
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-14
Male To Female Crossdressing In Early Modern English Literature written by Simone Chess and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
This volume examines and theorizes the oft-ignored phenomenon of male-to-female (MTF) crossdressing in early modern drama, prose, and poetry, inviting MTF crossdressing episodes to take a fuller place alongside instances of female-to-male crossdressing and boy actors’ crossdressing, which have long held the spotlight in early modern gender studies. The author argues that MTF crossdressing episodes are especially rich sources for socially-oriented readings of queer gender—that crossdressers’ genders are constructed and represented in relation to romantic partners, communities, and broader social structures like marriage, economy, and sexuality. Further, she argues that these relational representations show that the crossdresser and his/her allies often benefit financially, socially, and erotically from his/her queer gender presentation, a corrective to the dominant idea that queer gender has always been associated with shame, containment, and correction. By attending to these relational and beneficial representations of MTF crossdressers in early modern literature, the volume helps to make a larger space for queer, genderqueer, male-bodied and queer-feminine representations in our conversations about early modern gender and sexuality.
Dress And Cultural Difference In Early Modern Europe
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Author : Cornelia Aust
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2019-10-08
Dress And Cultural Difference In Early Modern Europe written by Cornelia Aust and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-08 with History categories.
Dress is a key marker of difference. It is closely attached to the body, part of the daily routine, and an unavoidable means of communication. The clothes people wear tell stories about their allegiances and identities but also about their exclusion and stigmatization. They allow for the display of wealth and can mercilessly display poverty and indigence. Clothes also enable people to play with identities and affinities: for instance, individuals can claim higher social status via their clothes. In many ways, dress is thus open to manipulation by the wearer and misinterpretation by the observer. Authorities—whether religious or secular, local or regional—have always aimed at imposing order on this potential muddle. This is particularly true for the early modern era, when the world became ever more complex. In Europe, the composition of societies diversified with the emergence of new social groups and increasing migration and travel. Thanks to intensified long-distance trade and technological developments, new fashionable clothes and accessories entered the market. With the emergence of a consumer culture, it was now the case that not only the extremely wealthy could afford at least the occasional indulgence in luxury items and accessories. Over recent years, research has focused on a variety of areas related to dress and appearance in the context of early-modern political, socio-economic, and cultural transformations both within Europe and related to its entanglement with other parts of the world. Nevertheless, a significant compartmentalization in the research on dress and appearance remains: research is often organized around particular cities and territories, and much research is still framed by modern national boundaries. This special issue looks at dress and its perception in Europe from a transcultural perspective and highlights the many differences that clothing can express.
Queer Virgins And Virgin Queans On The Early Modern Stage
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Author : Mary Bly
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2000
Queer Virgins And Virgin Queans On The Early Modern Stage written by Mary Bly and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Drama categories.
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, whose eroticism is extremely interesting, given that the focus of eros is the male body. The laughter recoverable from Whitefriars plays harnesses the pun's inherent doubleness to homoerotic pleasure; in these plays, 'the bawdy hand of the dial' is always 'on the pricke of noone'. Mary Bly's analysis depends on the nature of punning itself, and the inflections of language and the creativity that marked Whitefriars punsters, with special emphasis on the effect of puns on an audience. What happens to audience members who sit shoulder to shoulder and laugh at homoerotic quibbles? What is the effect of catching a queer pun's double meaning in a group rather than while alone? How can we characterize those auditors, within the convoluted, if fascinating, theories of erotic identity offered by queer theorists?
On The Queerness Of Early English Drama
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Author : Tison Pugh
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2021
On The Queerness Of Early English Drama written by Tison Pugh and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Drama categories.
This book probes occluded depictions of queerness in early English drama, ranging from medieval morality plays to Reformation interludes and beyond.
Flaunting
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Author : Amanda Bailey
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2007-01-01
Flaunting written by Amanda Bailey and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with History categories.
In the early modern period, the theatrical stage offered one of the most popular forms of entertainment and aesthetic pleasure. It also fulfilled an important cultural function by displaying modes of behaviour and dramatizing social interaction within a community. Flaunting argues that the theatre in late sixteenth-century England created the conditions for a subculture of style whose members came to distinguish themselves by their sartorial extravagance and social impudence. Drawing on evidence from legal documents, economic treatises, domestic manuals, accounts of playhouse practices, and stage plays, Amanda Bailey critiques standard accounts maintaining that those who flaunted their apparel were simply aspirants, or gaudy versions of the superiors they sought to emulate. Instead, she suggests that what mattered most was not what these young men wore but how they wore their clothes. These young men shared a distinctive sartorial sensibility and used that sensibility to undermine authority at all levels of society. Flaunting therefore, examines male style as a visual form of subversion against the norms of Renaissance England with the stage as the primary source of inspiration for collective identification. A glimpse into both the celebration of and opposition to social irreverence in the early modern period, Flaunting is a fascinating historical account of drama, fashion, and rebellion with surprisingly close parallels to the contemporary world.
Friendship And Queer Theory In The Renaissance
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Author : John S. Garrison
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-01-10
Friendship And Queer Theory In The Renaissance written by John S. Garrison and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
In this volume, the author offers a substantial reconsideration of same-sex relations in the early modern period, and argues that early modern writers – rather than simply celebrating a classical friendship model based in dyadic exclusivity and a rejection of self-interest – sought to innovate on classical models for idealized friendship. This book redirects scholarly conversations regarding gender, sexuality, classical receptions, and the economic aspects of social relations in the early modern period. It points to new directions in the application of queer theory to Renaissance literature by examining group friendship as a celebrated social formation in the work of early modern writers from Shakespeare to Milton. This volume will be of interest to scholars of the early modern period in England, as well as to those interested in the intersections between literature and gender studies, economic history and the economic aspects of social relations, the classics and the classical tradition, and the history of sexuality.
Queer Style
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Author : Adam Geczy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Queer Style written by Adam Geczy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Bohemianism categories.
While there have been references to same-sex and unorthodox sexual behaviors since early antiquity, the real literature begins in the late nineteenth century, when "homosexuality" was coined and sought to be defined. Beginning early with the descriptions of men, references to women had begun to increase by the early twentieth century, together with the emergence of more androgynous and austere female fashions. By the end of the twentieth century, when queer fashions and identities were more prevalent, there was far greater documentation and discussion of what constituted signs of sex and gender difference in personal deportment and in fashion. With the growth of gender studies, and subsequently queer studies in the late 1980s, there was mounting literature on past and present as to what did and could be constituted as queer style. One key conclusion is that queer style was not reducible to a discernible set of constituents, but is rather marked by the dynamic capacity for slippage from normative styles. In many cases, what was considered queer style made its way into the mainstream. Current literature engages with fashions and identities that are "trans" in nature, which includes a more pervasive identification with the cyborg which internalizes the important coefficient of queer style, artificiality.