Michael G. Cornelius is chair of the Department of English and Communications at Wilson College

Edward II and a Literature of Same-Sex Love: The Gay King in Fiction, 1590–1640 is a well-researched, well-organized and overall important analysis of representations of same-sex love in early modern English literature.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Sexuality as SilenceRepresenting Edward II in Medieval English LiteratureChapter 2: Sexuality as IdentityA King, A Lover, and a Crisis of Identity in Christopher Marlowe’s Edward IIChapter 3: Sexuality as HistoryUnderstanding Michael Drayton’s ObsessionChapter 4: Sexuality as (Flawed) Nature“Let Edward be the subject of thy pen:” Augustinian Character and Contradiction in Sir Francis Hubert’s The Historie of Edward the SecondChapter 5: Sexuality as DiseaseIdentification and The Role of “Defense” in Elizabeth Cary’s The History of the Life, Reign, and Death of Edward IIChapter 6: Sexuality as (Political, Moral, Cultural) Exemplum?The Strange Case of Edward II in Richard Niccols’ Mirror for MagistratesConclusionThe Doom and Promise of History

Michael G. Cornelius is chair of the Department of English and Communications at Wilson College

Edward II and a Literature of Same-Sex Love: The Gay King in Fiction, 1590–1640 is a well-researched, well-organized and overall important analysis of representations of same-sex love in early modern English literature.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Sexuality as SilenceRepresenting Edward II in Medieval English LiteratureChapter 2: Sexuality as IdentityA King, A Lover, and a Crisis of Identity in Christopher Marlowe’s Edward IIChapter 3: Sexuality as HistoryUnderstanding Michael Drayton’s ObsessionChapter 4: Sexuality as (Flawed) Nature“Let Edward be the subject of thy pen:” Augustinian Character and Contradiction in Sir Francis Hubert’s The Historie of Edward the SecondChapter 5: Sexuality as DiseaseIdentification and The Role of “Defense” in Elizabeth Cary’s The History of the Life, Reign, and Death of Edward IIChapter 6: Sexuality as (Political, Moral, Cultural) Exemplum?The Strange Case of Edward II in Richard Niccols’ Mirror for MagistratesConclusionThe Doom and Promise of History

Michael G. Cornelius is chair of the Department of English and Communications at Wilson College

Edward II and a Literature of Same-Sex Love: The Gay King in Fiction, 1590–1640 is a well-researched, well-organized and overall important analysis of representations of same-sex love in early modern English literature.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Sexuality as SilenceRepresenting Edward II in Medieval English LiteratureChapter 2: Sexuality as IdentityA King, A Lover, and a Crisis of Identity in Christopher Marlowe’s Edward IIChapter 3: Sexuality as HistoryUnderstanding Michael Drayton’s ObsessionChapter 4: Sexuality as (Flawed) Nature“Let Edward be the subject of thy pen:” Augustinian Character and Contradiction in Sir Francis Hubert’s The Historie of Edward the SecondChapter 5: Sexuality as DiseaseIdentification and The Role of “Defense” in Elizabeth Cary’s The History of the Life, Reign, and Death of Edward IIChapter 6: Sexuality as (Political, Moral, Cultural) Exemplum?The Strange Case of Edward II in Richard Niccols’ Mirror for MagistratesConclusionThe Doom and Promise of History