Out on Stage Lesbian and Gay Theater in the Twentieth Century

Name: Out on Stage Lesbian and Gay Theater in the Twentieth Century
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ISBN: 9780300081022

ISBN-10: 0300081022

ISBN-13: 9780300081022

Edition: 1999

Authors: Alan Sinfield

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An analysis of stage representations of lesbians and gay men from Oscar Wilde to the 1990s, this text argues that, despite censorship and discretion, 20th-century theatre has been viewed as gay space.

Book details

List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 12/11/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.47" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English

Alan Sinfield teaches in the English Department at Sussex University. He is the author of Out on Stage: Lesbian and Gay Theatre in the Twentieth Centuryand The Wilde Century: Effeminacy, Oscar Wilde, and the Queer Moment,among other books. He lives in Brighton, UK.



Acknowledgements


Note on Indexes and Citations


Introduction


Society and its Others: Scandal


Society and its Others: Bohemia


Emergings


Noel Coward's Audiences


Gay Men and Gender


Lesbians and Gender


Class Conscious


Queer Thrills


Reading Tennessee Williams


The All-American Family


The Problem of the Problem


Politics and Anger


'The Sixties'


Subcultural Work


AIDS: Crisis and Drama


Dissident Strategies


Notes


Index of Plays


Index of Names and Topics