Sodometries: Renaissance Texts, Modern Sexualities

xvi, 295 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Contents: Introduction: "That utterly confused category" -- pt. 1: "Wee/men" : gender and sexuality in the formations of Elizabethan high literariness. The making of courtly makers ; Spenser's familiar letters -- pt. 2: "Play the sodomits [sic], or worse" : the Elizabethan theater. The transvestite stage : more on the case of Christopher Marlowe ; Desiring Hal -- pt. 3: "They are all sodomites" : the New World. Discovering America ; Bradford's "ancient members" and "a case of buggery . amongst them" ; Tailpiece : from William Bradford to William Buckley.