Leon Craig draws on folklore and gothic horror in refreshingly inventive ways to explore queer identity
But not everything is as it seems in Patria Lupi
where the magical elite buy and swap designer bodies like clothes
about the queer trailblazers throughout history who inspired them
Smith acknowledges that in a country overrun by violence
Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare’s Greatest Rival, Christopher Marlowe asexual main character Leon Craig draws on folkloreIn brutally repressive sixteenth century England, artists had been frightened into dull conventionality; foreigners were suspect; popular entertainment largely consisted of coarse spectacles, animal fights, and hangings. Into this crude world came an ambitious cobblers son with an uncanny ear for Latin poetry, a torment for most schoolboys, yet for a few, a secret portal to beauty, visionary imagination, transgressive desire, and dangerous skepticism.