"The peculiar and pathological element in this is not that Orlando is therefore involved in playing a love scene with a man. It is that so few critics (and none cited in the varorium) have ever remarked that the model for it must be a homosexual flirtation; the name Ganymede cannot be used in the Renaissance [*] without this connotation."
Orgel, Stephen. Impersonations: the performance of gender in Shakespeare's England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 43.
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