1. Renaissance Drama & homoeroticism
... in demonstrating prevailing ideas of friendship in Renaissance culture. He shows us Richard Braithwaite's The English Gentleman as a guidebook to the qualities displayed by gentlemen and one such quality is that of 'acquaintance' and in defining such Braithwaite says that it should seek to be like 'two Twins [who] cannot be more naturally neare, than these [two such 'acquaintances'] be more affectionately deare ... is analogous to the idea of two becoming one in male/female sex and particularly Christian marriage. It is certainly language that suggests homoeroticism even if it's intenti...
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