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Article: The Early Modern and the Homoerotic Turn in Political Criticism.
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- Shakespeare Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 1998
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The reissuing in 1995 of Alan Bray's Homosexuality in Renaissance England I take as a sign that gay, lesbian and queer criticisms now have an acknowledged place in early modern literary and cultural studies. In the first chapter of Sodometries, published in 1992, Jonathan Goldberg wrote that the investigation of early modern sexualities can "transform utterly our sense of what Renaissance texts are about, where produced, and in whose interests" (p. 24). This review will look, a bit in retrospect, at what the four pioneering books discussed below have contributed to the achievement of this ambitious goal, how collectively they have set a complicated and multi-focused agenda ...