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- Title
Rereading Transvestism and Desire in Christopher Marlowe's Edward the Second.
- Authors
Lillo, Matthew D.
- Abstract
Roughly two decades ago, critics reoriented the central position of Christopher Marlowe's Edward the Second in discussions of sixteenth-century eroticism by clarifying important differences between sexuality and gender, dismissing transvestism as a sincere marker of homoerotic desire in the period's drama. Critics have continued to rehearse this dismissal under the curious assumption that if cross-dressing does not necessarily signify homoeroticism, then it simply does not signify it at all. This article returns to the anchor text for this thesis, asking whether certain cases of early modern theatrical playing show gender and sexuality consubstantiating in more complicated ways than previously thought.
- Subjects
EDWARD the Second (Theatrical production); MARLOWE, Christopher, 1564-1593; EROTICISM in literature; CROSS-dressing in literature; EARLY modern English literature; ENGLISH literature; LITERARY criticism
- Publication
SEL: Studies in English Literature (Johns Hopkins), 2018, Vol 58, Issue 2, p285
- ISSN
0039-3657
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/sel.2018.0012