The Drama of Marriage: Gay Playwrights/Straight Unions from Oscar Wilde to the Present

by John M. Clum

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349341398
• ISBN13: 9781349341399
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"