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Homosexuality was also common in Elizabethan England's atmosphere of wholesale permissiveness. Yet the era not only produced one of the most robust literary and intellectual outpourings the world has ever known but also laid the groundwork for Britain's later imperial primacy?during which time homosexuality became increasingly stigmatized...
...began reveling in the Elizabethan atmosphere of it all. This was the only way to run a tavern. The amount you'd lose in breakage you'd more than make up for in the hordes of fans that would patronize the place night after night. By now the patrons had started overturning tables on each other, and the girls were yelling that they were going to become very ill in a very short time. There was much vulgarity, and as the juke box offered "Wedding Bell Blues," the locals were slowly toppling to the floor in a mass of writhing...
Marlowe is surprisingly modern. His paradigm of the unnatural is presented in raw pop colors-an Elizabethan comic book. The structures are rough-chopped. The energy springs from exaltation and terror: Marlowe's discovery that man is alone. He mocks religion in the guise of popery, and he imagines the triumph of will defiant beyond limit. But he wakes in the night with the sweaty fear of death. And he sees that man makes all the moral rules there are, as he makes his own earth-bound hellfire...
OREGON SHAKESPEAREAN FESTIVAL, Ashland (July 19-Sept. 7). The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night and King John are the varied fare of the Elizabethan theater's 29th season. Virtue in Danger, an updated romantic musical escapade revived from the 17th century by Screenwriter-Lyricist Paul Dehn and Composer James Bernard, will serve as the matinee, a light after-lunch petite farce...
...false shame and guilt. Yet to judge from the nation's mood, a great number of Americans feel that the surfeit of sex must somehow be contained. Unless some restraints are imposed?or self-imposed?history suggests that the reaction to permissiveness may be strong. The ribald, rollicking Elizabethan age was succeeded by the severity of King James I and the censorious society of Oliver Cromwell. The excesses of the Restoration were sobered by Victorian propriety. The licentiousness of Weimar Germany ended in the austere and brutal anthill of Nazism. Constitutionally and temperamentally, the U.S. is probably immune to such...