Figuring Sex Between Men from Shakespeare to Rochester

By Paul Hammond

Book Overview

Paul Hammond explores the representation of sexual relations between men in English literature of the seventeenth century. He includes detailed readings of Shakespeare's Sonnets, and shows how his plays added homosexual elements to his source stories. He also analyses the satirical representation of homosexual kings such as James I and William III, and the homoerotic poetry of Marvell and Rochester.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198186932
• ISBN13: 9780198186939
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 8.6"