Research Catalog

Title

Theatre & sexuality / Jill Dolan.

Author

Dolan, Jill, 1957-

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

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Details

Description

xi, 107 p.; 18 cm.

Summary

"This book explains the critical validity of using sexuality as a lens for examining theatres creation and reception. The book offers clear introductions to sexual identity politics, ways of reading sexuality on stage and a select history of LGBTQ theatre, including a reading of Split Britches/Bloolips production Belle Reprieve"--

Series Statement

Theatre&

Uniform Title

Theatre&.

Alternative Title

Theatre and sexuality

Subject

• Gay theater > Great Britain
• Gay theater > United States
• Gays and the performing arts
• Homosexuality and theater
• Sex in the theater
• Sex role in the theater

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 86-93) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Gay and lesbian lives and ideas in the twentieth century -- Plays and productions : on and off Broadway -- From the avant-garde to commercial theatre -- Belle reprieve : LGBTQ theory into practice -- New audiences : no longer preaching to the choir.

ISBN

• 9780230220645 (pbk.)
• 0230220649 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2010023753

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library