Passing performances
Subtitle: queer readings of leading players in American theater history
By: edited by Robert A. Schanke and Kim Marra ; foreword by Jill Dolan.
Contributors: Schanke, Robert A., 1940-; Marra, Kim, 1957-
Series: Triangulations
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
Subjects: Gay actors -- United States -- Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Robert A. Schanke and Kim Marra; title: "My noble Spartacus": Edwin Forrest and masculinity on the nineteenth-century stage / Ginger Strand; title: "Such Romeo as we had never ventured to hope for": Charlotte Cushman / Denise A. Walen; title: Bohemian on horseback: Adah Isaacs Menken / Noreen Barnes-McClain; title: Rebels of their sex: Nance O'Neil and Lizzie Borden / Jennifer Jones; title: A lesbian marriage of cultural consequence: Elisabeth Marbury and Elsie de Wolfe, 1886-1933 / Kim Marra; title: Alla Nazimova: "the witch of makeup" / Robert A. Schanke; title: Elsie Janis: "a comfortable goofiness" / Lee Alan Morrow; title: Staging heterosexuality: Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne's design for living / Sam Abel; title: Kit and Guth: a lavender marriage on Broadway / Lesley Ferris; title: Webster without tears: a daughter's journey / Milly S. Barranger; title: Cheryl Crawford: one not so naked individual / Jay Plum; title: Monty Woolley: the public and private man from Saratoga Springs / Billy J. Harbin; title: Mary Martin: washin' that man right outta her hair / Stacy Wolf; title: Joseph Cino and the first off-off broadway theater / Douglas W. Gordy.