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Passing performances : queer readings of leading players in American theater history

Title: Passing performances : queer readings of leading players in American theater history / edited by Robert A. Schanke and Kim Marra ; foreword by Jill Dolan.
Publication: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [1998], ©1998.

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Description

xiv, 338 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Triangulations

Uniform Title

Triangulations.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Contents

Introduction / Robert A. Schanke and Kim Marra -- "My Noble Spartacus": Edwin Forrest and Masculinity on the Nineteenth-Century Stage / Ginger Strand -- "Such a Romeo as We Had Never Ventured to Hope For": Charlotte Cushman / Denise A. Walen -- Bohemian on Horseback: Adah Isaacs Menken / Noreen Barnes-McLain -- Rebels of Their Sex: Nance O'Neil and Lizzie Borden / Jennifer Jones -- A Lesbian Marriage of Cultural Consequence: Elisabeth Marbury and Elsie de Wolfe, 1886-1933 / Kim Marra -- Alla Nazimova: "The Witch of Makeup" / Robert A. Schanke -- Elsie Janis: "A Comfortable Goofiness" / Lee Alan Morrow -- Staging Heterosexuality: Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne's Design for Living / Sam Abel -- Kit and Guth: A Lavender Marriage on Broadway / Lesley Ferris -- Webster without Tears: A Daughter's Journey / Milly S. Barranger -- Cheryl Crawford: One Not So Naked Individual / Jay Plum -- Monty Woolley: The Public and Private Man from Saratoga Springs / Billy J. Harbin --
Mary Martin: Washin' That Man Right Outta Her Hair / Stacy Wolf -- Joseph Cino and the First Off-Off-Broadway Theater / Douglas W. Gordy.

ISBN

LCCN

98019710

OCLC

ocm39078788

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries