1. Renaissance Drama & homoeroticism
It is certainly language that suggests homoeroticism even if it's intentions are purely of a neo-Platonic kind. Masten suggests however (that Braithwaite only views male friendship and sexuality as incompatible because prior classical texts have shown these kinds relationships to be founded on inequalities between those involved in terms of gender, age or office (loosely equated as class). ... We are first introduced to the two in Act II Scene I and the scene is one of a parting of the ways but the language used emphasises that it is an emotional parting. ... Immediately then this rela...
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