A Wife for a Month A Wife for a Month A Wife for a Month is a late Jacobean era stage play, a tragicomedy written by John Fletcher and originally published in the first Beaumont and Fletcher folio of 1647. The play was licensed for performance by Sir Henry Herbert, the Master of the Revels, on 27 May 1624; it was acted by the King's Men. The partial cast list added to the play in the second Beaumont and Fletcher folio of 1679 mentions Joseph Taylor, Robert Benfield, Richard Robinson, John Underwood, Nicholas Tooley, and George Birch. The list contains a contradiction, since Tooley died
Homosexuality and the Western Christian Tradition Homosexuality and the Western Christian Tradition Homosexuality and the Western Christian Tradition is a 1955 book about the history of Christianity and homosexuality by the theologian Derrick Sherwin Bailey. The medieval historian John Boswell, writing in "Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality" (1980), described "Homosexuality and the Western Christian Tradition" as a "pioneering study" that almost all "modern historical research on gay people in the Christian West" has depended upon and was still the best work on its subject in print. However, he wrote that it, "suffers from an emphasis on negative sanctions which gives a wholly misleading picture of medieval