M. Morgan Holmes (essay date June 1995)
SOURCE: Holmes, M. Morgan. “Identity and the Dissidence It Makes: Homoerotic Nonsense in Kit Marlowe's Hero and Leander.” English Studies in Canada 21, no. 2 (June 1995): 151-69.
[In the following essay, Holmes examines Marlowe's portrayal of homosexual desire in Hero and Leander.]
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Generations of audiences, readers, and critics have proved that few species of literary dissidence can rival the unsettling force of Marlovian homoerotic desire.1 Christopher Marlowe's homoerotic...
Source: Poetry Criticism, ©2004 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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