This book explores representations of love and desire between female characters in nearly seventy plays written between 1580 and 1660. The work argues that play

This book explores representations of love and desire between female characters in nearly seventy plays written between 1580 and 1660. The work argues that play

DiGangi analyses the relation between homoeroticism and social power in a range of literary and historical texts from the 1580s to the 1620s, drawing on insight

This volume examines and theorizes the oft-ignored phenomenon of male-to-female (MTF) crossdressing in early modern drama, prose, and poetry, inviting MTF cross