Gentlemen Callers: Tennessee Williams, Homosexuality, and Mid-Twentieth-Century Drama
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Gentlemen Callers provides a fascinating look at America's greatest Twentieth-century playwright and perhaps the most-performed, even today. Michael Paller looks at Tennessee Williams's plays from the 1940s through the 1960s against the backdrop of the playwright's life story, providing fresh details. Through this lens Paller examines the evolution of Mid-Twentieth-century America's acknowledgment and acceptance of homosexuality. From the early Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and one-act Auto-da-F , through The Two-Character Play and Something Cloudy, Something Clear, Paller's book investigates how Williams's earliest critics marginalized or ignored his gay characters and why, beginning in the 1970s, many gay liberationists reviled them. Lively, blunt, and provocative, this book will appeal to anyone who loves Williams, Broadway, and the theater.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:140396775X
ISBN13:9781403967756
Release Date:May 2005
Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan
Length:269 Pages
Weight:0.82 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 5.7" x 8.7"
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Arts, Music & Photography Biographies British & Irish Criticism & Theory Drama Gay Gay & Lesbian History History & Criticism Humor & Entertainment Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Nonfiction Performing Arts Politics & Social Sciences Social Sciences Specific Demographics TheaterCustomer Reviews
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