Same-Sex Desire in Early Modern England, 1550–1735: An Anthology of Literary Texts and Contexts

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Balancing long-overlooked and well-known works from early modern England, "Same-sex desire in early modern England, 1550-1735: an anthology of literary texts and contexts" is a collection of English texts about homoerotic love, relationships, desires, and sexual acts. The anthology's core texts are selections from works of drama, fiction, romance, poetry, essays and translation. These core texts are carefully introduced and annotated, and supplemented with illuminating contextual material from other early modern disciplines such as law, medicine, and theology. Juxtaposing literary and non-literary representations of same-sex erotic desire, this anthology explores a rich tradition of works both celebrating and condemning same-sex erotic love. Same-Sex Desire in Early Modern England, 1550 –1735 Half Title Page Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Illustrations Preface General Introduction CHAPTER 1: Religious and Moral Writings Introduction 1.1 From Bible (Authorized Version (1611)) Thomas Beard (c. 1568–1632), polemicist and clergyman 1.2 From The Theatre of God's Judgements (1597) William Prynne (1600–69), lawyer and writer 1.3 From Histrio-mastix¹ (1633) CHAPTER 2: Pseudo-Medical Writings Introduction Giles Jacob (1686–1744), legal professional and writer 2.1 From Tractatus de Hermaphroditis: Or, A Treatise of Hermaphrodites (1718)¹ 2.2 From A Supplement to the Onania (1725?) CHAPTER 3: Criminal Pamphlets and the Law Introduction 3.1 From The Arraignment, Judgement, Confession, and Execution of Humphrey Stafford, Gentleman 3.2 The Life and Death of John Atherton, Lord Bishop of Waterford and Lismore¹ (1641) 3.3 From The Arraignment and Conviction of Mervin Lord Audley, Earl of Castlehaven (1642/3)¹ CHAPTER 4: Travel Writings Introduction Leo Africanus [al-Hassan bin Muhammed al-Wazzan al-Fasi] (1486/88–c. 1554), writer and traveller 4.1 From A Geographical History of Africa (2nd edn, 1600)¹ Nicolas de Nicolay (1517–c. 1583), French cartographer 4.2 From The Navigations, Peregrinations, and Voyages Made into Turkey (1585) Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605–89), baron of Aubonne, French courtier, merchant, and traveller 4.3 From Collections of Travels Through Turkey into Persia and the East Indies (2nd edn, 1684): A New Relation of the Inner-Part of the Grand Seignior’s Seraglio¹ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762), writer, traveler, and inoculation pioneer 4.4 From ‘The Turkish Embassy Letters’ (comp., 1716–18; publ., 1763) CHAPTER 5: Letters Introduction King James I and VI (1566–1625), King of Scotland (1567–1625) and England (1603–25) 5.1 From 'Letters' Constance Fowler [née Aston] (d. 1664), poet and letter writer 5.2 From Constance Fowler to Herbert Aston¹ Mary Stuart, later Mary II (1662–94) and Frances Apsley, later Lady Bathurst (d. 1727) 5.3 From 'Letters' CHAPTER 6: The New 'Homosexual' Subculture, 1700-30 Introduction 6.1 From An Account of the Proceedings Against Captain Edward Rigby¹ (1698) 6.2 From A Collection of the Most Choice and Private Poems¹ (1699) 6.3 The Women-Hater’s Lamentation¹ (1707) John Dunton (1659–1732), bookseller and writer 6.4 From Athenianism (1710)¹ Edward (Ned) Ward (1667–1731), satirist and journalist 6.5 From The Second Part of the London Clubs (1709)¹ 6.6 From Hell upon Earth (1729) 6.7 From Plain Reasons for the Growth of Sodomy in England CHAPTER 7: The Classical Tradition in Translation Introduction Homer (fl. eighth century BCE), Greek epic poet, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey George Chapman (1559/60–1634), poet and dramatist 7.1 From The Iliad Sappho (b. c. 630 BCE), Greek lyric poet Sir Philip Sidney (1554–86), courtier, soldier, and poet 7.2 From ‘The Old Arcadia’ (comp. 1577–80) Pierre Bayle (1647–1706), Huguenot classical scholar and professor of philosophy 7.3 From An Historical and Critical Dictionary (1710) Ambrose Philips (1674–1749), writer and translator 7.4 From The Odes of Sappho (1713) John Addison (fl. 1735–36), translator 7.5 From The Works of Anacreon […] To which are added the Odes, Fragments, and Epigrams of Sappho (1735) Sappho’s After-Life: Imitation, Inspiration, Denigration John Lyly (1554–1606), writer 7.6 From Sappho and Phao (1592) John Donne (1572-1631) 7.7 From Poems (1633) William Walsh (1662–1708), MP and writer 7.8 From A Dialogue Concerning Women (1691) 7.9 From The Sappho-An (c. 1735?/1749?) Anacreon (c. 575–c. 490 BCE), Greek poet Francis Willis (n.d.), Abraham Cowley (1618–67), John Oldham (1653–83), Thomas Wood (n.d.), and S.B 7.10 From Anacreon done into English out of the original Greek (1683)¹ Thomas Ball (1669/70–1723), translator and Cambridge graduate 7.11 From Two Books of Elegies (1697) Horace (65–8 BCE), Latin poet Henry Rider (fl. 1623–38), translator 7.12 From All the Odes and Epodes of Horace (1638; 2nd edn, 1644) Catullus (c. 84–54 BCE), Latin poet Richard Lovelace (1617–57), poet, royalist army officer, and Oxford graduate 7.13 From Lucasta: Posthume Poems (1659) Jean de La Chapelle (1651–1723), French dramatist, prose writer, and member of the Académie Française 7.14 From The Adventures of Catullus (1707) 7.15 From The Works of Petronius Arbiter (1713) Virgil (70–19 BCE), Latin poet John Dryden (1631–1700), writer 7.16 From The Works of Virgil (1697)¹ Ovid (43 BCE–17/18 ce), Latin poet Arthur Golding (1535/6–1606), writer and translator 7.17 From Ovid’s Metamorphoses (1567) George Sandys (1578–1644), writer and translator 7.18 From Metamorphoses (1632) George Turbervile [Turberville] (1543/4–c. 1597), poet and translator 7.19 From Heroical Epistles (1567) Metamorphoses’ Afterlife: Imitations and Inspirations John Lyly (1554–1606) 7.20 From Gallathea (1592) Lewis Machin (fl. 1607–13), poet and playwright 7.21 From Mirrha, the Mother of Adonis (1607) Thomas Heywood (c. 1573–1641), poet, actor, dramatist, and prose writer 7.22 From The Golden Age (1611) Martial (c. 40–104 CE), Latin poet R. Fletcher (fl. 1650s) 7.23 From Ex Otio Negotium, Or, Martial His Epigrams Translated¹ (1656) Thomas May (c. 1596–1650), historian, translator, playwright, and poet 7.24 From Selected Epigrams of Martial (1629) Sir John Heath (1614–91), lawyer, royalist, and attorney-general of the duchy of Lancaster 7.25 From Martial’s Epigrams (BL MS Egerton 2982 and MS Additional 27343) Thomas Dilke (fl. 1678–98), writer 7.26 From XXV Select Allusions to Several Places of Horace, Martial, Anacreon, and Petron[ius] (1698) Juvenal (c. 50/65–after 130 CE), Latin satirist John Dryden (1631–1700) 7.27 From The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis¹ (1693) Plutarch (c. 50–120 CE), Greek philosopher and historian Philemon Holland (1552–1637), scholar and translator 7.28 From Moralia (1603) Lucian of Samosata (fl. second century CE), Greek writer Thomas Heywood (c. 1573–1641) 7.29 From Pleasant Dialogues and Dramas (1637) Ferrand Spence (fl. 1682–89), translator 7.30 From Lucian’s Works (1684–85) Thomas Brown (1663–1704), poet, dramatist, translator, and writer of non-fiction prose 7.31 From The Third Volume of the Works of Lucian (1711) CHAPTER 8: Literature: Representing Male Same-Sex Erotic Relationships and Desires Edmund Spenser (?1552–99), poet 8.1 From The Shepheardes Calender (1579)¹ 8.2 From The Faerie Queene (1596) Sir Philip Sidney (1554–86) 8.3 From The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia (‘The New Arcadia’) (1593) Richard Barnfield (1574–1620), writer 8.4 From The Affectionate Shepherd (1594) 8.5 From Cynthia, with Certain Sonnets (1595) Christopher Marlowe (1564–93), poet and playwright 8.6 From Edward II (1594) 8.7 From Hero and Leander (1598) 8.8 From BL Harley MS 6848, ff. 185–6 John Marston (1576–1634), writer 8.9 From The Scourge of Villainy (1598) William Shakespeare (1564–1616), playwright and poet 8.10 From Sonnets (1609) Barnabe Barnes (1571–1609), writer 8.11 From The Devil’s Charter (1607) Lady Mary Wroth (?1587–1651/53), writer 8.12 From Urania (Part I, 1621) Michael Drayton (1563–1631), writer 8.13 From The Muses’ Elizium (1630) George Herbert (1593–1633), poet 8.14 From The Temple (1633) John Donne (1572–1631), clergyman and writer 8.15 From Poems (1633) Edmund Waller (1606–87), poet 8.16 From Poems (1645) Nicholas Oldisworth (1611–45), clergyman and poet 8.17 From A Recollection of Certain Scattered Poems (Bodleian MS. Don.c.24) (completed, 1644–45)¹ Richard Crashaw (1612/13–48), poet 8.18 From Steps to the Temple (1646) Thomas Traherne (c. 1637–74), writer 8.19 Love (publ., 1903) Abraham Cowley (1618–67), writer and translator 8.20 From Davideis¹ (1656) John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647–80), libertine poet and courtier 8.21 Love to a Woman 8.22 Nestor 8.23 To the Post Boy 8.24 Song 8.25 From Sodom and Gomorrah (publ., 1684) Charles Goodall (1671–89), poet 8.26 From Poetical Recreations (1688) 8.27 From Poems and Translations (1689) Thomas Dilke (fl. 1678–98), writer 8.28 From The Lover’s Luck (1696) Thomas Baker (b. 1680/81), lawyer and writer 8.29 From Tunbridge-Walks: Or, the Yeoman of Kent (1703) Lady Mary Chudleigh (1656–1710), poet and essayist 8.30 From Essays upon Several Subjects (1710) Thomas Gordon? (d. 1750), writer 8.31 From Love Letters Between a Certain Late Nobleman and the Famous Beau Wilson (1723)² CHAPTER 9: Literature: Representing Female Same-Sex Erotic Relationships and Desires Desiderius Erasmus (?1466–1536), humanist scholar 9.1 From Colloquies (1689) Mary Maitland? (d. 1596), writer and copyist 9.2 From The Maitland Quarto MS Sir Philip Sidney (1554–86) 9.3 From The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia (‘The New Arcadia’) (1593) William Shakespeare (1564-1616) 9.4 From A Midsummer Night’s Dream (c. 1594–95) Aemilia Lanyer (1569–1645), poet 9.5 From Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (1611) Lady Mary Wroth (?1587–1651/53) 9.6 From Urania, Part I (1621) Ben Jonson (1572–1637), poet and playwright 9.7 From The Forest (1616)¹ 9.8 From The Underwood (1640) Edmund Waller (1606–87) 9.9 From Poems (1645) 9.10 A Copy of Verses Made by a Lady and Sent to Another Lady, with a Bracelet Made of Her Own Hair (1655) Andrew Marvell (1621–78), writer and politician 9.11 From Poems (1681) Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (?1623–73), writer 9.12 From Nature’s Pictures (1656) 9.13 From Plays Never Before Printed (1668): The Convent of Pleasure Katherine Philips (1632–64), poet 9.14 From Poems (1667)¹ Edward Howard? (1624–1712), writer 9.15 Fricatrices:¹ or, A She upon a She (1674) Jean Barrin (c. 1640–1718), vicar-general of the diocese of Nantes 9.16 From Venus in the Cloister: Or, The Nun in Her Smock (1683) Aphra Behn (?1640–1689), writer 9.17 From Poems upon Several Occasions (1684) 9.18 From Lycidus (1688) 9.19 From Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (1692) ‘Ephelia’ (fl. 1670s and 1680s), writer and royalist 9.20 From Female Poems on Several Occasions (1679; second edn 1682) Anne Killigrew (1660–85), poet and painter 9.21 From Poems (1686) Jane Barker (1652–1732), writer 9.22 From Poetical Recreations, Part I (1688) 9.23 From A Patchwork Screen for the Ladies (1723) Catharine Trotter (?1674–1749), writer 9.24 From Agnes de Castro (1695) 9.25 From A Collection of the Most Choice and Private Poems¹ (1699) Lady Mary Chudleigh (1656–1710) 9.26 From Poems on Several Occasions (1703) Delarivier Manley (c. 1670–1724), writer 9.27 From The New Atalantis (1709)¹ Anne (Kingsmill) Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661–1720), poet 9.28 From Anne Finch Folger MS: Miscellany Poems with Two Plays by Ardelia (c. 1685–1702), pp. 48–9¹ 9.29 From Miscellany Poems (1713) 9.30 From Anne Finch Wellesley MS (c. 1702–1719/20), pp. 92–3 9.31 An Epistle from Signora F——a to a Lady (1727)¹ John Hoadly (1711–76), poet and playwright 9.32 On the Friendship of Two Young Ladies (1730)¹ William King (1685–1763), Oxford college head and minister 9.33 From The Toast¹ (second edn, 1736) Glossary Works Cited Index