Male Pretense A Gender Study of Sir Philip Sidney's Life and Texts

Sidney's revealing correspondence with his tutor Hubert Languet displays a friendship that seems to have developed into a homoerotic attachment or Greek love and thereby problematized Sidney's own gender. That personal gender problematic explains, as this book demonstrates, why Sidney's early masque The Lady of May can be read simultaneously as a textualisation of the instability of gender difference and of Sidney's relationship to his Virgin Queen, Elizabeth I.Bachinger, Katrina is the author of 'Male Pretense A Gender Study of Sir Philip Sidney's Life and Texts' with ISBN 9780773412705 and ISBN 0773412700.