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Cupid, idolatry, and iconoclasm in Sidney's Arcadia.(Philip Sidney)(Critical essay)
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The erotic in Sir Philip Sidney's work is insistently and profoundly ocular. In book 1 of the New Arcadia, Pyrocles tells how his passion for Philoclea began when he gazed on her portrait. Subsequently confronted by her beauty in the flesh, he continues to frame it in terms of painting and to indulge his ravished sight: "Sometimes my eyes would lay themselves open to receive all the darts she did throw, sometimes close up with admiration, as if, with a contrary fancy, they would preserve the riches of that sight they had gotten, or cast my lids as curtains over the image of ...
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The horseman in King James I.(Essay)
Magazine article from: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
; ...FROM 1615 TO 1625, George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham was the favorite and...of King James I. Villiers parlayed his homosexuality...veterinary medicine. Villiers' grab for the Sheffield...His father, Sir George Villiers, was a threadbare...
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Making Spanish connections
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; ...that extraordinary chancer, George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham. They were accompanied only by one of Buckingham's boyfriends, James Hamilton...held the horses, a sweaty Buckingham talked his way past the door...
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