Staging desire
Subtitle: queer readings of American theater history
By: edited by Kim Marra and Robert A. Schanke.
Contributors: Marra, Kim, 1957-; Schanke, Robert A., 1940-
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
Subjects: American drama -- History and criticism.; Homosexuality and literature -- United States -- History.; Theater -- United States -- History.; Desire in literature.; Gays in literature.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; title: Kim Marra & Robert A. Schanke; title: PLAYWRIGHTS AND LYRICISTS; title: Clyde Fitch's Too Wilde Love; title: Kim Marra; title: Rachel Crothers: An Exceptional Woman in; title: a Man's World; title: J. K. Curry; title: Say What You Will about Mercedes de Acosta; title: Robert A. Schanke; title: Djuna Barnes: The Most Famous Unknown; title: Susan F. Clark; title: George Kelly, American Playwright: Characters; title: in the Hands of an Angry God; title: Billy J. Harbin; title: Let's Do It: The Layered Life of Cole Porter; title: Mark Fearnow; title: Lorenz Hart: This Can't Be Love; title: Jeffrey Smart; title: Dorothy's Friend in Kansas: The Gay Inflections; title: of William Inge; title: Albert Wertheim; title: CRITICS AND AUDIENCES; title: "Appealing to the Passions": Homoerotic Desire and; title: Nineteenth-Century Theater Criticism; title: Lisa Merrill; title: "That's the Kind of Gal I Am": Drag Balls, Lulu Belles,; title: and "Sexual Perversion" in the Harlem Renaissance; title: James Wilson; title: The Gay Man as Thinker: Eric Bentley's Many Closets; title: Daniel-Raymond Nadon; title: DESIGNERS AND DANCERS; title: The Electric Fairy: The Woman behind the Apparition; title: of Loie Fuller; title: Bud Coleman; title: "Not as Other Boys": Robert Edmond Jones and; title: Designs of Desire; title: Jane T. Peterson; title: A Lifetime in Light: Jean Rosenthal's Careers,; title: Collaborations, and Commitments to Women; title: Jay Scott Chipman; title: Notes on the Contributors; title: Index.