Two of the dramatist's most queerly themed plays made it into print that year: Edward II, about the medieval king's passionate desire for his favourite Piers Gaveston; and Dido, Queen of Carthage, a dramatisation of the Aeneid that opened with a remarkable scene of erotic foreplay between Jupiter and his sexual plaything, Ganymede.
Richard Barnfield, a young poet, also made a bold entrance in 1594 with his collection The Affectionate Shepherd, reinterpreting Virgil's second eclogue with vivid homoeroticism, expressing Daphnis' yearning for Ganymede in a raunchy manner.
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