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English literature --- Homophobia --- Homosexuality --- Male homosexuality in literature. --- Sexual orientation in literature. --- Sodomy in literature. --- Sodomy --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Political aspects --- History. --- Political aspects --- History.

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Starting with St. Paul's argument that the Greeks were afflicted with homosexuality to punish their excessive love of statues, Richard Halpern uncovers a tradition in which aesthetic experience gives birth to the sexual-and thus reverses the Freudian thesis that erotic desire is sublimated into art. Rather, Halpern argues, sodomy was implicated with aesthetic categories from the very start, as he traces a connection between sodomy and the unrepresentable that runs from Shakespeare's Sonnets to Oscar Wilde's novella The Portrait of Mr. W.H., Freud's famous essay on Leonardo da Vinci, and Jacques Lacan's seminar on the ethics of psychoanalysis. Drawing on theology, alchemy, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and literary criticism, Shakespeare's Perfume explores how the history of aesthetics and the history of sexuality are fundamentally connected.

Psychoanalysis and literature. --- Sodomy in literature. --- Sonnets, English --- Sublime, The, in literature. --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- Freud, Sigmund, --- Lacan, Jacques, --- Shakespeare, William, --- Wilde, Oscar, --- Psychoanalysis and literature --- In literature. --- English sonnets --- English poetry --- Cultural Studies. --- Literature.

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Gay men in literature --- Hommes homosexuels dans la littérature --- Homoseksualiteit [Mannelijke ] in de literatuur --- Homoseksuele mannen in de literatuur --- Homosexuality [Male ] in literature --- Homosexualité masculine dans la littérature --- Male homosexuality in literature --- Seksualiteit in de literatuur --- Sex in literature --- Sexe dans la littérature --- Sodomie dans la littérature --- Sodomie in de literatuur --- Sodomy in literature --- English fiction --- Gay men in literature. --- Homosexuality and literature --- Satire, English --- Male homosexuality in literature. --- Sodomy in literature. --- Sex in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History --- History and criticism --- Early modern, 1500-1700 --- 18th century --- Satire [English ] --- Great Britain --- 17th century

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William Burgwinkle surveys poetry and letters, histories and literary fiction - including Grail romances - to offer a historical survey of attitudes towards same-sex love during the centuries that gave us the Plantagenet court of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, courtly love, and Arthurian lore. Burgwinkle illustrates how 'sodomy' becomes a problematic feature of narratives of romance and knighthood. Most texts of the period denounce sodomy and use accusations of sodomitical practice as a way of maintaining a sacrificial climate in which masculine identity is set in opposition to the stigmatised other, for example the foreign, the feminine, and the heretical. What emerges from these readings, however, is that even the most homophobic, masculinist and normative texts of the period demonstrate an inability or unwillingness to separate the sodomitical from the orthodox. These blurred boundaries allow readers to glimpse alternative, even homoerotic, readings.

Homosexuality in literature. --- Sodomy in literature. --- Masculinity in literature. --- Literature, Medieval --- Homosexuality --- Sodomy --- Homosexualité dans la littérature --- Sodomie dans la littérature --- Masculinité dans la littérature --- Littérature médiévale --- Homosexualité --- Sodomie --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire --- Buggery --- Pederasty --- Sex crimes --- Same-sex attraction --- Sexual orientation --- Bisexuality --- Masculinity (Psychology) in literature --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- History

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This book is the first comprehensive account of homoeroticism in Renaissance drama. Mario DiGangi analyses the relation between homoeroticism and social power in a wide range of literary and historical texts from the 1580s to the 1620s, drawing on the insights of materialist, feminist and queer theory. Each chapter focuses on the homoerotics of a major dramatic genre (Ovidian comedy, satiric comedy, tragedy and tragicomedy) and studies the ideologies and institutions it characteristically explores. DiGangi examines distinctions between orderly and disorderly forms of homoerotic practice in both canonical and unfamiliar texts. In these readings, the various proliferating forms of homoeroticism are indentified in relation to sodomy, against which there were cultural and legal prohibitions in the period. DiGangi's study illuminates, through a diverse range of plays, the centrality of homoerotic practices to household, court and city life in early modern England.

English drama --- Homosexuality and literature --- Politics and literature --- Literature and society --- Eroticism in literature. --- Sodomy in literature. --- Renaissance --- Order in literature. --- Sex in literature. --- Erotica in literature --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Literature and homosexuality --- History and criticism. --- History --- History. --- Social aspects --- Arts and Humanities --- Drama --- English literature --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699