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Straight acting : popular gay drama from Wilde to Rattigan
- Title
- Straight acting : popular gay drama from Wilde to Rattigan / Sean O'Connor.
- Author
- O'Connor, Sean, 1968-
- Publication
- London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.
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- Description
- ix, 245 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- Between the trials of Oscar Wilde in the 1890s and the beginnings of legal reforms in the 1960s, the West End stage was dominated by the work of gay playwrights. In a book that covers both familiar and lesser-known works, Sean O'Connor examines the legacy of Wilde as a playwright and as a gay man, and explores in the works of Somerset Maugham, Noel Coward and Terence Rattigan the resonance of Wilde's agenda for tolerance and his creed of individuality. O'Connor contextualizes these plays against the enormous social and historical changes of the twentieth century.
- He also examines the legal restrictions which regulated the personal lives of these writers and required them to evolve sophisticated strategies in order to express on stage, albeit obliquely, their dilemmas as gay men.
- Series Statement
- Bloomsbury academic collections. Film studies : European cinema, 2051-0012
- Alternative Title
- Popular gay drama from Wilde to Rattigan
- Subject
- Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 > Criticism and interpretation
- Maugham, W. Somerset 1874-1965 > Criticism and interpretation
- Coward, Noël, 1899-1973 > Criticism and interpretation
- Rattigan, Terence > Criticism and interpretation
- Coward, Noël, 1899-1973
- Maugham, W. Somerset 1874-1965
- Rattigan, Terence
- Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
- 1900-1999
- English drama > 20th century > History and criticism
- Homosexuality and literature > Great Britain > History > 20th century
- Gay men's writings, English > History and criticism
- Gay men in literature
- English drama
- Gay men's writings, English
- Homosexuality and literature
- Great Britain
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Note
- Facsimile reprint. Originally published: London ; Washington : Cassell, 1998.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Foreword / Simon Watney -- 1. Oscar and After -- 2. Somerset Maugham, Warts and All -- 3. Public Lives, Private Faces -- 4. Sentimental Education -- 5. Brief Encounters -- 6. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea.
- Call Number
- MFL 18-2947
- ISBN
- 9781474288279
- 1474288278
- 9781474293143 (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- 951505945
- Author
- O'Connor, Sean, 1968-
- Title
- Straight acting : popular gay drama from Wilde to Rattigan / Sean O'Connor.
- Publisher
- London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Bloomsbury academic collections. Film studies : European cinema, 2051-0012
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- MFL 18-2947