caa a22 4500 386366489 CHVBK 20180307111936.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198904 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0021875800019162 doi S0021875800019162 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0021875800019162 Thompson Roger Reader in American History in the School of English and American Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, England Attitudes Towards Homosexuality in the Seventeenth-Century New England Colonies [Elektronische Daten] [Roger Thompson] The first play I attended at my all-boys secondary school was Marlowe's Dr Faustus. The lower boys crammed in the gallery were not wholly engaged by grandiloquent Elizabethan cadences, nor by the laboriously unfolding plot. What stopped the whispering and fidgeting and then brought the house down was the scene in which Faustus, as reward for selling his soul, is allowed to kiss the most beautiful woman in the world, Helen of Troy. In this production the hell-bent Doctor had to make do with the prettiest boy in the school. Wild whoops, mating calls, indecent suggestions for further action rained down from the gallery. At the curtain call Helen again stole the show. Next morning, the Headmaster, a Scottish Presbyterian whose zeal for the Lord was second only to his zeal for rugby football, rebuked the school for the shameful scenes and prescribed a three-mile run to cool our ardour. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Journal of American Studies Cambridge University Press 23/1(1989-04), 27-40 0021-8758 23:1<27 1989 23 AMS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875800019162 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875800019162 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Thompson Roger Reader in American History in the School of English and American Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, England NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of American Studies Cambridge University Press 23/1(1989-04), 27-40 0021-8758 23:1<27 1989 23 AMS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge