| Stages of Queerness: Representations of Sexual Otherness in British Drama between 1900 and 1968 Contributor(s): Kubowitz, Hanna (Author) |
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ISBN: 3668710791 ISBN-13: 9783668710795 Publisher: Grin Verlag OUR PRICE: $182.88 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2018 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines - Social Science | Human Sexuality (see Also Psychology - Human Sexuality) |
| Physical Information: 1.88" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (2.40 lbs) 848 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Document from the year 2018 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, language: English, abstract: What is 'queer drama'? Since when have there been representations of queerness in British drama? Can we speak of queerness avant la lettre, and if so, what did it look like? How did queer representations in British theatre change throughout the twentieth century? What influence did stage censorship have on representations of queerness? What happened before the sudden eruption of queer drama after the abolition of stage censorship, and by which means could the legal taboo on queerness be circumvented? How did queer representations in the theatre influence notions of queerness in society and vice versa? These are some of the leading questions this book addresses. Does this book have anything to offer you? Are you gay, lesbian, or heterosexual? Are you a trans-, a-, bi-, non-sexual being? Or are you insecure of who you are? Really, it does not matter very much. You are the potential reader of this book, and if you decide to go on reading you will read things that may prove of significance to you. Because you're human. You are a human being who can, potentially, fall in love, aren't you? If you are, this book concerns you. Taking the beginning of the twentieth century as the starting point for discussion, this book aims at exploring representations of queerness in British drama before the abolition of theatre censorship in 1968 and at demonstrating that queerness did not merely appear in the margins of pre-1960s British theatre, but that it can be detected in its very centre, namely in many of the most popular and most successful plays of their time. To achieve this aim, a selection of plays by three eminent male playwrights writing within the British cultural and socio-political context of the first half of the twentieth century will be analysed. The focus will predominantly be on plays by William S. Maugham (1874-1965), No l Coward (1899-1 |