The drama of marriage : gay playwrights--straight unions from Oscar Wilde to the present
- Title
- The drama of marriage : gay playwrights--straight unions from Oscar Wilde to the present / John M. Clum.
- Published by
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- 230 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.
- Series statement
- Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history
- Uniform title
- Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history
- Subject
- Zielke-Nadkarni, Andrea 1956-
- Geschichte 1850-2011
- English drama > Male authors > History and criticism
- American drama > Male authors > History and criticism
- Marriage in literature
- Gay men's writings, American > History and criticism
- Gay men's writings, English > History and criticism
- American drama > Male authors
- Gay men's writings, American
- Gay men's writings, English
- Marriage in literature
- Drama
- Ehe Motiv
- Homosexualitàˆt
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Contents
- Introduction: the drama of marriage -- Edward Carpenter and Oscar Wilde: ideal and real marriage -- Somerset Maugham's inconstant spouses -- Love or marriage: Sir Noel Coward and Sir Terrence Rattigan -- Emlyn Williams: growing into marriage -- Clyde Fitch and George Kelly: spunky American wives and domestic monsters -- 1950s marriages sweet and sour: Tennessee Williams and William Inge -- Edward Albee: marriage as vaudeville -- Gay playwrights, gay husbands, gay history.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.