(since
Marlowe liked boys, and kirtles could be worn by males).
John Leonard adds in parenthesis.
I don't have the Marlowe passage in front of me, but as I recall it is a
report of one of Marlowe's outrageous comments. And as I further vaguely
remember, the statement begins as a question: know you not that . . . .,
and ends as a comment on local sexual fashions.
I just checked Bruce Smith's Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare's England,
and found discussions of "Come live with me" and The Shepheardes Calender,
etc. -- but not the passage I desire!
Yours, Bill Godshalk
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