Projektnummer

0059221

Zusammenfassung

"Rogue Sexuality" argues that early modern popular literature constructed rogues - a group that included vagrants, beggars, prostitutes, and thieves - as a dangerous "promiscuous generation" consumed with "sensual lust". This depiction, however, also associated rogues with a seductive sexual independence that acted as a powerful solvent of social boundaries. As a consequence, William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and the pre-Civil War playwright Richard Brome adapted what this project terms "rogue sexuality" for the stage, portraying socio-political elites appropriating the rogue's sexual v...