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"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."--

Drama --- Thematology --- English literature --- drama [literary genre] --- English drama --- Sexual minorities in literature. --- Gender identity in literature. --- Sex in literature. --- Sexual orientation in literature. --- Homosexuality in literature. --- Desire in literature. --- History and criticism --- To 1500 --- England. --- David Lyndsay. --- Everyman. --- John Bale. --- Terrence McNally. --- Tudor. --- York Corpus Christi Plays. --- allegory. --- drama. --- early English drama. --- medieval. --- morality plays. --- queer scopophilia. --- queer. --- sexuality. --- theatre.

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Characters representing various sins and vices became the stars of their respective theatrical traditions in the course of the late medieval and early modern period in both the Low Countries and England. This study assesses the importance of such characters, and especially the English Vice and Dutch sinnekens, for our understanding of medieval and sixteenth-century Dutch and English drama by charting diachronic developments and through synchronic comparisons. The analysis of the functions as well as theatrical and meta-theatrical aspects of these characters reveals how these plays were conditioned by their literary and social setting. It sheds invaluable light on the subtly divergent appreciation of the concept of drama in these two regions and on their different use of drama as a didactic tool. In a wider perspective this study also investigates how the moral plays and their negative characters reflect the changes in the intellectual and religious climate of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Theatrical science --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- United Kingdom --- Netherlands --- English drama --- Dutch drama --- Moralities. --- Drama, Medieval --- Theater --- Drama, Medieval. --- Theater. --- History and criticism. --- History --- To 1599. --- Benelux countries. --- England. --- Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Stage --- Theatre --- Performing arts --- Acting --- Actors --- Morality plays --- Drama --- Mysteries and miracle-plays --- Religious drama --- Medieval drama --- Plays, Medieval --- Moralities --- To 1599 --- Angleterre --- Anglii͡ --- Anglija --- Engeland --- Inghilterra --- Inglaterra --- Low countries