... to be founded on inequalities between those involved in terms of gender, age or office (loosely equated as class). This does not of course mean that Braithwaite is condoning homosexual acts if based on an equitable footing but does allow some conjecture as to whether there was room for manouvre between the boundary of homosocial and homoerotic practise. Apart from this ... that boundaries between the two were already undermined in Reniassance culture but is this reflected in the dramatic productions of the preiod? There are representations of such male bonds within Shakespeare's Twelfth...

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