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Out on Stage - Lesbian and Gay Theater in the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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Out on Stage - Lesbian and Gay Theater in the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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This intriguing and authoritative book tracks stage representations
of lesbians and gay men from Oscar Wilde to the present day. Alan
Sinfield argues that, despite and because of censorship and
discretion, twentieth-century theatre has been viewed as gay space.
When we attune ourselves to the idioms of the different decades,
theatre emerges as an important place for the circulation of images
of homosexuality and for the exploration of concepts of gender and
sexuality. Sinfield examines scores of British and American plays
and playwrights, including works by Wilde, Maugham, Coward,
Hellman, O'Neill, Rattigan, Williams, Le Roi Jones and Orton. He
locates plays in the contexts in which they were produced and
viewed, whether it be West End and Broadway or more bohemian little
club theatres, Off-Broadway, and fringe. He discusses many women
writers - from Djuna Barnes and Agatha Christie to Lorraine
Hansberry and Caryl Churchill - and analyses the implications of
homosexuality in their work.He explains why in the 1950s British
and American plays began to differ in their representations of
gays, how the 1960s produced an exuberant cultivation of 'kinky'
humour and gay political activism in theatres, and what impact AIDS
has had on theatrical productions. Sinfield concludes with
provocative questions about the direction of new theatre writing,
asserting that representations in theatre continue to challenge
notions of our sexual potential. Alan Sinfield is professor of
English literature at the University of Sussex. Among his many
publications are 'Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar
Britain', 'Faultlines: Cultural Materialism and the Politics of
Dissident Reading', 'The Wilde Century', and 'Cultural Politics -
Queer Reading'.
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