{"product_id":"on-the-queerness-of-early-tison-pugh-9781487508746","title":"On the Queerness of Early English Drama: Sex in the Subjunctive","description":"\u003cp\u003eOften 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuilding from these foundations, \u003ci\u003eOn the Queerness of Early English Drama\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eMankind\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eAne Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis\u003c\/i\u003e. Pugh concludes with Terrence McNally's \u003ci\u003eCorpus Christi\u003c\/i\u003e, pondering the afterlife of medieval drama and its continued utility in probing cultural constructions of gender and sexuality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tison Pugh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1487508743\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781487508746\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/26\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.50w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2022","brand":"Tison Pugh","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44045495632127,"sku":"9781487508746","price":68.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_36b69f5e-c21f-473c-b11e-abfcd6c3da68.jpg?v=1684979096","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/on-the-queerness-of-early-tison-pugh-9781487508746","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}