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Introduction Quem quaeritis? Queerness in Early English Drama

© 2021 University of Toronto Press, Toronto

© 2021 University of Toronto Press, Toronto

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. Introduction Quem quaeritis? Queerness in Early English Drama 1
  5. PART ONE Queer Theories and Themes of Early English Drama
  6. Chapter One A Subjunctive Theory of Dramatic Queerness 21
  7. Chapter Two Themes of Friendship and Sodomy 49
  8. PART TWO Queer Readings of Early English Drama
  9. Chapter Three Performative Typology, Jewish Genders, and Jesus’s Queer Romance in the York Corpus Christi Plays 71
  10. Chapter Four Excremental Desire, Queer Allegory, and the Disidentified Audience of Mankind 95
  11. Chapter Five Sodomy, Chastity, and Queer Historiography in John Bale’s Interludes 121
  12. Chapter Six Camp and the Hermaphroditic Gaze in Sir David Lyndsay’s Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis 146
  13. Conclusion Terrence McNally’s Corpus Christi and the Queer Legacy of Early English Drama 171
  14. Notes 183
  15. Bibliography 207
  16. Index 235
On the Queerness of Early English Drama
This chapter is in the book On the Queerness of Early English Drama
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487538866-002

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. Introduction Quem quaeritis? Queerness in Early English Drama 1
  5. PART ONE Queer Theories and Themes of Early English Drama
  6. Chapter One A Subjunctive Theory of Dramatic Queerness 21
  7. Chapter Two Themes of Friendship and Sodomy 49
  8. PART TWO Queer Readings of Early English Drama
  9. Chapter Three Performative Typology, Jewish Genders, and Jesus’s Queer Romance in the York Corpus Christi Plays 71
  10. Chapter Four Excremental Desire, Queer Allegory, and the Disidentified Audience of Mankind 95
  11. Chapter Five Sodomy, Chastity, and Queer Historiography in John Bale’s Interludes 121
  12. Chapter Six Camp and the Hermaphroditic Gaze in Sir David Lyndsay’s Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis 146
  13. Conclusion Terrence McNally’s Corpus Christi and the Queer Legacy of Early English Drama 171
  14. Notes 183
  15. Bibliography 207
  16. Index 235
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