The drama of marriage
Subtitle: gay playwrights--straight unions from Oscar Wilde to the present
By: John M. Clum
Series: Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780230338401
Subjects: Gay men's writings, English; Popular literature; Male authors; English drama; History and criticism; Marriage in literature; American drama; Gay men's writings, American
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the drama of marriage; title: Edward Carpenter and Oscar Wilde: ideal and real marriage; title: Somerset Maugham's inconstant spouses; title: Noel Coward and Terrence Rattigan: love or marriage; title: Emlyn Williams: growing into marriage; title: Clyde Fitch and George Kelly: spunky American wives and domestic monsters; title: 1950's marriages sweet and sour: Tennessee Williams and William Inge; title: "To the death": Edward Albee's chronicles of marriage; title: Gay playwrights, gay husbands, gay history.