by Jinny Webber | Jan 25, 2018 | Christopher Marlowe, Gender fluidity, Sex and Gender in Shakespeare's England |
“Perhaps I shall write about a Ganymede. Thus would Neptune discover a swimmer on the shore: Leander, so lovely that he might be a maid in man’s attire.” Christopher Marlowe, after seeing Sander fresh from swimming and thinking him a boy. Chapter XIX, The Secret...
by Jinny Webber | Jan 19, 2018 | Sex and Gender in Shakespeare's England
“You’re the one who inspired me.” [Kate says to her brother Johnny] “Me?” “Your knowledge. Your Ovid that you taught me to read, all those fantastical transformations. Now I shall have one myself.” “Into a boy.” He looked dubious. Chapter III, The Secret Player As...
