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Queering Restoration and Eighteenth Century, Relationship with Medley,…
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Relationship with Medley
DORIMANT TO MEDLEY: ’Twere unreasonable to desire you not to laugh at me but pray do not expose me to the town this day or two’ (III, iii) MEDLEY TO DORIMANT: Dorimant! I pronounce thy reputation clear (V, ii)
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THE EMBRACE
• MEDLEY: Dorimant, my life, my joy, my darling sin! How dost thou? [Embraces him]
• ORANGE-WOMAN: Lord, what a filthy trick these men have got of kissing one another! [She spits]
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• The embrace can be taken as a sign of male friendship in the period, as show by Sir Fopling’s usage of it.
• Sir Fopling’s usage of it also underlies its femininity.
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Performing Libertinism in Charles II's Court: Politics, Drama, Sexuality
Jeremy Webster
Medley’s various characteristics ‘are in keeping with traits associated with sodomites during this period’, and through these Etherege ‘initiates a critique of what libertinism had come to represent in the public mind’ and ‘leads his Rochesterian protagonist to replace his public gestures of sodomitical friendship with public promises to giving up some aspects of his libertinism in order to marry’ (Webster, p. 112); ‘he moves towards a potential domestication of libertinism. By providing Dorimant with a suitable mate in the form of Harriet, Etherege modulates libertinism’s excesses and guarantees the libertine’s incorporation into the community’ (Webster, p. 121
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