Queer Virgins and Virgin Queans on the Early Modern Stage
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 1 June 2000
- ISBN 9780198186991
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages224 pages
- Size 224x146x22 mm
- Weight 410 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Queer Virgins examines the creation and theatrical performance of queer puns in Renaissance London. Its argument--that a small theatre known as the Whitefriars was run by a community of playwrights who self-consciously targeted an audience sympathetic to homoerotic desire and to homoerotic puns in particular--revises the current scholarly belief that early modern Londoners did not form self-conscious communities based on erotic desire. This book is for students of the early modern theatre; those who are interested in the history of erotic relations between men, and all who delight in puns and bawdy.
MoreLong description:
Queer Virgins and Virgin Queans looks at the early modern theatre 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?
One is left very much better informed about the boys of Whitefriars and the men who marketed them. Bly's style is swift and sure and her insights into early modern sexual economics shrewd. Any student of role play, cross-dressing or homoerotics in Shakespeare will welcome this work.
Table of Contents:
Bawdy Virgins and Queer Puns
Licence Taken: Borrowed Prurience and the First Whitefriars Company
Punning Eroticisms
Sodomy in the Literary Terrain: Readers and Reading Pleasures
Homoerotic Puns and Queer Collaborations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
