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                            LESBIANISM AND HOMOSEXUALITY IN EARLY MODERN SPAIN
                                                             Literature and Theater in Context

TABLE OF CONTENTS

-  Foreword                             (Alain Saint-Saëns)                   i

-   Prefacio                            (María-José Delgado)                 iii                            

-   Introducción                     (María-José Delgado)                 v

- Table of Contents                                                                 xi 

PART I :        THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT                  1

-  Homoerotic Suffering, Pleasure, and Desire in Early

Modern Europe, 1450-1750.  (Alain Saint-Saëns)                  3

     1) Sexuality, History, and Desire                                       5

     2) The Repression of Sodomy                                            8

          ‘Pallid and Wan’:   Imperfect Sodomy                        10

          ‘The Nefarious Sin’:  Perfect Sodomy                        12

          ‘The Silent Sin’:         Female Sodomy                        20

     3) Sex and Love between Women                                   23

          ‘Frivolous and Vain Pleasures’                                   23

           Lesbian Love                                                              27

     4) Homoerotic Behaviors at Royal Courts                       32

     5) Staging Same-Sex Desire                                            38

     6) Representations of Homoerotic Desire                       44

         Conclusion                                                                   59

         Notes                                                                            61

PART II :       LITERATURE AND THEATER             87

-  Mercaderes de su talle:  Cassandra, Beltranico,

    Julio, and Laura at an Inn or in Ferrara.

                                          (Harry Veléz Quiñones)              89

-   From Cultural Drama to Social Drama:  Symbolic

    Inversion and its Practices.  (Yvonne Jehenson)          119

-   ‘Él es tan rara persona.’  Sobre cortesanos, lindos,

    sodomitas y otras masculinidades nefandas en la

    España de la temprana Edad Moderna.

                                      (José Cartagena-Calderón)           139

-  Comedy, Foppery, Camp:  Moreto’s El lindo

   Don Diego.                          (Matthew D. Stroud)            177

-   Afeminados, hechizados, y hombres vestidos de

   mujer:   la inversión sexual en algunos entremeses

   de los Siglos de Oro.

                                        (Pablo Restrepo-Gautier)           199

-  Daniel L. Heiple                                                             217

-  Góngora and the Myth of Ganymede.

                                                   (Daniel L. Heiple)          219

-  Deflecting Desire:  The Portrayal of Ganymede

   in Arguijo’s Art and Poetry.

                                         (Frederick A. de Armas)         233                                         

-  The (Homo)erotics of  Privanza:   The Count of

   Villamediana and Tirso’s Privar contra su gusto.

                                         (Christopher B. Weimer)        257

-   Los moralistas según Butler:   Una perspectiva

    postmodernista sobre la identidad sexual en el

    teatro del Siglo de Oro.           (Kathleen Regan)        281

-  Early Modern Lesbianism on Center Stage: 

   Cubillo de Aragon’s Añasco El de Talavera.

                                                     (Sherry Velasco)         305

- Queering Laurencia in Fuenteovejuna:  Lope’s

   Amazons and Contemporary Racial Cross-

  Dressing.                          (Baltasar Fra-Molinero)        323

- The Mediation of Lesbian Eros in Golden Age

  Verse.                                   (Adrienne L. Martín)        343            

- El silencio de tus manos y el sonido de tu pluma:

  La socavación del lesbianismo lúdico en el Siglo

  de Oro.                        (Rosario Ramos González)        363               

- Lesbiagrafisis.  Exposición y expansión del deseo

  femenino en La traición en la amistad de María de

  Zayas y Sotomayor.            (María-José Delgado)         379

- Was Miguel de Cervantes a Homosexual?

                                                  (Robert Ter Horst)         395

About the Editors and Contributors                                 418

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