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Lesbians, drag kings, and pregnant queens: The Digby Mary Magdalene's queer relationships
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2024-12-17
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This article argues that the Digby Mary Magdalene’s biblical, hagiographical, and allegorical characters support performance registers that provide a fertile space for queer relationships to emerge. It begins with Mary’s seducer, the lesbian-like Lady Luxuria, whose amiable tongue follows patterns more common to heterosexual seduction scenes. It then examines the Gallant’s parodic man-about-town, who wears courtly love as insincerely as his tight clothing and anticipates the flamboyant gender performances of modern drag kings. The article examines the lingering implications of these interactions on Mary’s post repentance plot with the Queen of Marseilles and on the play’s medieval and modern audiences.
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Black, D. (2024) Lesbians, drag kings, and pregnant queens: The Digby Mary Magdalene's queer relationships. Early Theatre, 27(2), pp. 51–70.
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© 2024 The Author. Published by McMaster University Library Press and Becker Associates. This is an open access article available under a Creative Commons licence.
The published version can be accessed at the following link on the publisher’s website: https://doi.org/10.12745/et.27.2.5799
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1206-9078
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2293-7609