In the most comprehensive study yet of homosexuality in the English Renaissance, Bruce R. Smith examines and rejects the assessments of homosexual acts in moral

Queering the Renaissance offers a major reassessment of the field of Renaissance studies. Gathering essays by sixteen critics working within the perspective of

This essay focuses on the possibility of social and personal transformation which was opened up by the gay liberation movement in France, which the author terms

A provocative exploration of gender in the Renaissance, from theatrical cross-dressing to cultural subversion.

First published in 1982 by Gay Men's Press. Reissued in 1995 with a new afterword and updated bibliography.