The Homoerotics of Early Modern Drama

This book is the first comprehensive account of homoeroticism in Renaissance drama. Mario DiGangi analyzes 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.