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Article: Touching touchets: Perkin Warbeck and the Buggery Statute.(character in Renaissance English dramatist John Ford's 1634 play 'The Chronicle History of Perkin Warbeck')
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- Renaissance Quarterly
- Article date:
- June 22, 1999
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At first sight, The Chronicle History of Perkin Warbeck seems to be the only one of John Ford s plays that is not pointedly and openly concerned with sexual deviation. Both 'Tis Pity She's a Whore and The Broken Heart feature either actual incest or the fear of it. The Lover's Melancholy is structured around the concept of a passion that verges on the pathological, an erotomania. The Fancies Chaste and Noble has at the heart of its plot an allegedly impotent marquis who is believed to keep a harem. Love's Sacrifice probes the boundaries of platonic love. And The Lady's Trial has one wife who is thought to be adulterous, one who is actually so, and a third who has been sold ...
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