The Drama of Marriage by J Clum
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. Beginning with Oscar Wilde and focusing on some of the most successful British and American playwrights of the past century, including Somerset Maugham, NoAl Coward, Terence Rattigan, and Emlyn Williams in England and Clyde Fitch, George Kelly, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, and Edward Albee in the US, The Drama of Marriage looks at how the plays they wrote about heterosexual marriage continue to impact contemporary gay playwrights and the depiction of marriage today.-
Theatre, Performance and the Historical Avant-Garde
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The Group Theatre
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The Theatre of the Occult Revival
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Stage Designers in Early Twentieth-Century America
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Theatre, Youth, and Culture
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Staging Stigma
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Memory in Play
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Performance and Femininity in Eighteenth-Century German Women's Writing
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Directors and the New Musical Drama
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The New Humor in the Progressive Era
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Entertaining Children
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Performing Magic on the Western Stage
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Rogue Performances
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The Past, Present, and Future of American Regional Theatre
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Uncle Tom's Cabin on the American Stage and Screen
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A Sustainable Theatre
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Hijikata Tatsumi and Butoh
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George Alexander and the Work of the Actor-Manager
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Operatic China
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Plays in American Periodicals, 1890-1918
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Racism and Early Blackface Comic Traditions
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Theaters of Error
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Performing Bodies in Pain
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Acts of Manhood
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Loss and Cultural Remains in Performance
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Mei Lanfang and the Twentieth-Century International Stage
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Transposing Broadway
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Puppetry and Dramaturgy
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W. C. Fields from Sound Film and Radio Comedy to Stardom
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On the Uses of the Fantastic in Modern Theatre
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Thomas Hamblin and the Bowery Theatre
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Audrey Wood and the Playwrights
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Moscow Theatres for Young People: A Cultural History of Ideological Coercion and Artistic Innovation, 1917-2000
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Staging the Slums, Slumming the Stage
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Ghosts of Theatre and Cinema in the Brain
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America's First Regional Theatre
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American Playwriting and the Anti-Political Prejudice
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The Education of a Circus Clown
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Popular Theatre and Political Utopia in France, 1870-1940
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Class Divisions on the Broadway Stage
"John MClum's The Drama of Marriage: Gay Playwrights/Straight Unions from Oscar Wilde to the Present casts a look at important interconnected issues revolving around the concept of marriage. Unique is the vantage point of playwrights whose own sexual orientation was or is partly or entirely towards men. This not only legitimates but necessitates the strong biographical approach Clum has chosen. The volume is immensely readable, garners important results by way of an incredibly dense tour de force, and animates the reader to delve deeper not only into the works but also the life stories of the playwrights discussed. Primary text and author are always the focus and are honoured in this way...John M. Clum's publications are seminal works in their field, and this latest volume is a gem." - Theater Forschung
"Far-reaching in its historical and dramaturgical scope, and politicizing a previously apolitical aspect of Anglo-American theatre history, Clum's monograph is a helpful intervention into several current discourses. And, given the current divisive debate about same-sex marriage, a debate that is as divided amongst queer citizens as it is anywhere else, Clum's summation that marriage - gay or straight - is always already an 'unattainable ideal' that mere mortals forever fail in, yet find themselves compelled to 'continually strive for,' is intellectually and political brave." - Performing Ethos
'This book offers an appealing companion to Clum's celebrated Acting Gay (1992) and continues to narrate the history of gay theatre. It also will be of interest to those working on gender and the role of women in the twentieth-century theatre.' - Theatre Journal
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781349341399 |
| ISBN 10 | 1349341398 |
| Title | The Drama of Marriage |
| Author | J Clum |
| Series | Palgrave Studies In Theatre And Performance History |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Year published | 2011-12-16 |
| Number of pages | 234 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |