Sexual types : embodiment, agency, and dramatic character from Shakespeare to Shirley / Mario DiGangi.

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2011], ©2011.

viii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Keeping company: the sodomite's familiar vices -- Fulfilling Venus: substitutive logics -- Mincing manners: the narcissistic courtier and the (de)formation of civility -- Calling whore:the citizen wife and the erotics of open work -- Making commotion: familiar knowledge and the bawd's seduction -- Making monsters: the Caroline favorite and the erotics of royal will.

Includes bibliographical references and index.