... 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 Night and Marlowe's Edward II which we shall now examine. In Twelfth Night there are a number of relationships represented which all provide some comment on the issue we are addressing. We will concern ourselves with that of Sebastian and Antonio ... may well be that we are are to allude that this is a sodomitical relationship and that issues of censorship only allow the author to make the allusion throu...

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