Status, sodomy, and the theater in Marlowe's Edward II.(Abstracts)(Christopher Marlowe)(Brief Article)
Publication: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
Publication Date: 22-MAR-04
Author: Stymeist, David
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While critics of Marlowe's Edward II have seen the play as an "unwitting tribute" to the dominant ideology or an iconoclastic rewriting of sexual politics, sodomy in the play constitutes a pragmatic strategy of representational ambivalence. On one level, Edward II condemns male homoeroticism when it is specifically combined...
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