Clothing and Queer Style in Early Modern English Drama

This book examines male characters who are mocked for their extravagant dress in early modern plays. It argues that through these characters relationship with material culture, these plays rethink embodiment, masculinity, and eroticism in queer ways. The plays not only made those queer ways of being available to their early modern audiences, but by tracing their political and ethical concerns in a new way, this volume shows how the plays contain potent provocations for a reassessment of assumptions about sexuality and selfhood in the present.