Drama of marriage, the: gay playwrights/straight unions from oscar wilde to the present
Auteur :
Clum, J.
Éditeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN :
9781349341399
Date de publication :
16 déc. 2011
Dimensions :
21,6 x 14,0 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
In studying performances of marriage in modern and contemporary British and American drama, Clum highlights the fact that - paradoxically - at a time when theatre was both popular entertainment and high culture, many of the most commercially and artistically successful plays about marriage were written by homosexual men.