The Queen's Two Bodies and the Elizabethan Male Subject in John Lyly's Gallathea (1592)

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dc.contributor.authorSingh, Amritesh
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-23T06:55:50Z
dc.date.available2021-01-23T06:55:50Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractThis article reads John Lyly’s Gallathea as an experiment in the representation of Elizabeth in the political context specific to the mid- to late-1580s. The argument diverges from the critical tradition that regards the play as part of a series of attempts to promote representations of Elizabeth as the Virgin Queen, which included Lyly’s Endimion. The article presents Gallathea as introducing a parallel strain in Elizabethan political discourse where, instead of being divorced from one another, female sexuality and female authority exist in a state of happy union. Concomitantly, the article highlights how Gallathea gestures towards a new code of manhoodand courtliness that does not regard the union between female sexuality and authority as a cause for anxiety, thereby showcasing Lyly himself as the ideal male subject in this discursive realm, equally desirous of and deserving Elizabeth’s patronage.en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationAmritesh Singh, 'The Queen's Two Bodies and the Elizabethan Male Subject in John Lyly's Gallathea (1592)', Southern African Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 27 (2017): 53-86en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1017-3455
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12430/549394
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherSouthern African Society for Medieval and Renaissance Studiesen_ZA
dc.subjectResearch Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGIONen_ZA
dc.subjectElizabethan Dramaen_ZA
dc.subjectGreek mythologyen_ZA
dc.titleThe Queen's Two Bodies and the Elizabethan Male Subject in John Lyly's Gallathea (1592)en_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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