At 13:29 16/10/00 -0400, you wrote: >> I think Prof. >> Hamilton was only talking about sexual *biography* of our authors; >> certainly his interpretations of Lust in IV.vii exhibit no squeamishness >> about sex in *literature.* > >I see; so it is fine to talk about sex in Renaissance literature so long as we can reassure=delude ourselves (and our students' parents) we are safely in the imaginary. Not surprising. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%