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1 online resource (x, 404 pages) : illustrations |
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Book collections on Project MUSE
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Introduction / Kim Marra & Robert A. Schanke -- Playwrights and lyricists. Clyde Fitch's too Wilde love / Kim Marra -- Rachel Crothers: an exceptional woman in a man's world / J.K. Curry -- Say what you will about Mercedes de Acosta / Robert A. Schanke -- Djuna Barnes: the most famous unknown / Susan F. Clark -- George Kelly, American playwright: characters in the hands of an angry god / Billy J. Harbin -- Let's do it: the layered life of Cole Porter / Mark Fearnow -- Lorenz Hart: this can't be love / Jeffrey Smart -- Dorothy's friend in Kansas: the gay inflections of William Inge / Albert Wertheim -- Critics and audiences. "Appealing to the passions": homoerotic desire and nineteenth-century theater criticism / Lisa Merrill -- "That's the kind of gal I am": drag balls, lulu belles, and "sexual perversion" in the Harlem Renaissance / James Wilson -- The gay man as thinker: Eric Bentley's many closets / Daniel-Raymond Nadon -- Designers and dancers. The electric fairy: the woman behind the apparition of Loie Fuller / Bud Coleman -- "Not as other boys": Robert Edmond Jones and designs of desire / Jane T. Peterson -- A lifetime in light: Jean Rosenthal's careers, collaborations, and commitments to women / Jay Scott Chipman |
| Summary |
"Staging Desire gathers critical and biographical essays on notable stage personalities who made their mark before 1969, when the Stonewall riots accelerated the lesbian and gay rights movement in the United States. How they staged their unconventional sexualities greatly influenced the course of their personal and professional lives, and thus the course of American theater history. The book builds on an earlier collection--the well-received Passing Performances, which focused on actors, directors, producers, and agents--by examining playwrights, lyricists, critics, and designers. Shaping theatrical representations from offstage, these practitioners exploited the special opportunities theater offered as a complex and many-layered medium for expression of transgressive desire." |
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"Essays cover the careers of major figures Clyde Fitch, Rachel Crothers, Mercedes de Acosta, Djuna Barnes, Cole Porter, Lorenz Hart, George Kelly, William Inge, James "Acorn" Oaks, Adam "Vagabond" Badeau, Eric Bentley, Loie Fuller, Robert Edmond Jones, and Jean Rosenthal. Grounded in research into the history of sexuality, the book engages central problems of terminology and evidence in analyzing sexual practices of the past and the modes of articulation of sexuality in theater, conditioned by American culture's peculiar anxieties about both"--Publisher's description |
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Critical and biographical essays on notable stage personalities who made their mark before 1969, when the Stonewall riots accelerated the lesbian and gay rights movement in the United States. How they staged their unconventional sexualities greatly influenced the course of their personal and professional lives, and thus the course of American theater history |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Gay theater -- United States -- History
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Sexual minorities in the theater -- United States -- History
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Gay dramatists -- United States -- Biography
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Lesbian dramatists -- United States -- Biography
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American drama -- History and criticism
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Homosexuality and literature -- United States -- History
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Theater -- United States -- History
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Sexual minorities in literature.
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Gay men in literature.
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Lesbians in literature.
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Desire in literature.
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Gay people in literature
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General
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American drama
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Desire in literature
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Gays in literature
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Homosexuality and literature
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Theater
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Theater
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Homosexualität
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LGBTQ+ drama.
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Queer drama.
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Gay drama.
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Lesbian drama.
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United States
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USA
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Gay literary criticism.
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Lesbian literary criticism.
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LGBTQ+ literary criticism.
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Queer literary criticism.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Marra, Kim, 1957-
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Schanke, Robert A., 1940-
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| ISBN |
9780472904167 |
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0472904167 |
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