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Status, sodomy, and the theater in Marlowe's Edward II.(Christopher Marlowe)(Critical Essay)
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Stephen Orgel contends "that English Renaissance culture does not appear to have had a morbid fear of male homoerotic behavior." (1) Similarly, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick argues that homosexual practice during the period did not constitute a threat because of its compatibility with heterosexuality and marriage. (2) Nevertheless, sodomy could constitute a social threat in early modern England when it was combined with issues of status transgression. (3) The notable trial of Mervin Touchet, second Earl of Castlehaven, reveals a pervasive judicial anxiety over the combination of open male ...
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