Marlowe's tale of gay kg of England, via Jarman. Provotive and visually elegant.
Contents:
- ‘THE KG AND HIS HBAND’: THE GAY HISTORY OF BRISH ROYALS
- THE TRAGIC BUT TE STORY OF ENGLAND’S GAY KG
- REVIEW/FILM; HISTORIL EDWARD II AND GAY ISSU TODAY
- EDWARD GAY
- THEATER; EARLY BRECHT, WH A GAY THEME AND VARIATNS
‘THE KG AND HIS HBAND’: THE GAY HISTORY OF BRISH ROYALS
Queen Elizabeth's is expected to wed the first same-sex royal weddg this summer — but he is far om the first gay Brish royal, acrdg to historians. * edward 2 gay *
Summary Let me be clear om the outset: this study do not set out to st Edward II as a medieval reprentative of any one morn tegory of sexual orientatn, heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, whatever. This article therefore attempts to move beyond the somewhat naïve and sterile posivist bate that aims to claim Edward eher as gay or as straight, and stead to exame the reasons why some people the fourteenth century found appropriate and necsary to clu issu about sexualy their nstctn of this kg's character and reign. ”The speculatn that Edward II’s relatnships wh the men went beyond iendship was fueled by Christopher Marlowe’s 16th-century play “Edward II”, which is often noted for s homoerotic portrayal of Edward II and VI and I, who reigned over Stland and later England and Ireland until his ath 1625, attracted siar scty for his male favor, a term ed for panns and advisers who had special preference wh monarchs.
Bergeron theoriz his book “Kg Jam and Letters of Homoerotic Dire”: “The scriptn that mov across the letters spell sire. In his play Edward II Christopher Marlowe appears to enurage the dience to terpret the relatnship as a homosexual one. Lord Bechamp, Walmer Castle and Homosexualy.
William Lygon, Lord Bechamp, was a known homosexual the 1920s and 1930s, leadg to a dramatic fall om grace.
THE TRAGIC BUT TE STORY OF ENGLAND’S GAY KG
The tragic but te story of England's gay kg. Edward II loved fiercely but lost everythg. * edward 2 gay *
:) I've often seen Edward scribed as 'England's only openly gay kg' or somethg siar, and seems to be taken as historil fact that he was homosexual. This is based at least part on the prevly-mentned Hollywood film Braveheart, where Edward appears screamgly mp and rrpondgly petent, a manner I for one fd disturbgly homophobic and unpleasant.
REVIEW/FILM; HISTORIL EDWARD II AND GAY ISSU TODAY
The gay kg of England (Steven Waddgton) meets his doom this update of Christopher Marlowe's play. * edward 2 gay *
However, this also over-simplifi the suatn, and Edward and his lovers Gavton and Spencer are shown simply as the victims of homophobia, wh the English nobl simply unable to pe wh the kg's different liftyle.
An important thg to remember is that 's only been fairly recently history that people have fed themselv as homosexual, heterosexual or bisexual. Whoever Edward slept wh, he uldn't have thought of himself as gay: so is really possible to argue today that he was, when his society had no ncept of this?
EDWARD GAY
Edward II: Directed by Derek Jarman. Wh Steven Waddgton, Kev Colls, Andrew Tiernan, John Lynch. In this Derek Jarman versn of Christopher Marlowe's Elizabethan drama, morn stum and settgs, Plantage kg Edward II hands the power-cravg nobily the perfect exce by takg as lover bis his diplomatic wife, the French prcs Isabel, not an acceptable lady at urt but the amb Piers Gavton, who his favor bed even to wield polil fluence - the stage is set for a palace revolt which sends the gay pair om the throne to a termal torture dungeon." data-id="ma * edward 2 gay *
But while the Netherlands, which 2001 beme the first untry to legalize gay marriage, has paved the wave for a queer royal to officially wear the crown, LGBTQ people have long been dog so unofficially.
(The term “cut sleeve” remaed a Che phemism for male homosexualy for centuri. The liph’s sexualy has been the source of some bate: Acrdg to the French medievalist Évariste Lévi-Provençal, the phrase “hubb al-walad, ” found 16th-century historian Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari’s pendium "Nafh at-Tib" reference to Al-Hakam II, translat as a “preference for boys, ” though other scholars mata refers to paternal Medieval Europe scholar Francis Prado-Vilar wrote that knowledge of Al-Hakam’s homosexualy the urt of Córdoba “enuraged the ambns of the factns gathered around his much younger brother, Prce al-Mughira.
THEATER; EARLY BRECHT, WH A GAY THEME AND VARIATNS
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”“In his youth his lov seem to have been entirely homosexual, ” queer studi scholar Louis Crompton wrote “Male Love and Islamic Law Arab Spa. Young as “the most proment homosexual figure the early morn perd. )“To the shock of many urtiers, the pair were monstratively affectnate to each other public, spe Jam’ var proclamatns agast homosexualy, ” Daniel Smh wrote “Love Letters of Kgs and Queens.
Frerick the Great of Pssia (1712 - 1786)Even his lifetime, this Pssian royal was wily mored to be a homosexual, though that term wouldn’t be ed till nearly 90 years after his years after the kg’s ath, his physician Johann Ge Rter von Zimmermann published a book which he sperately tried to dispel gossip Frerick had a “Grecian taste love.