The Drama of Marriage
eBook - PDF

The Drama of Marriage

Gay Playwrights/Straight Unions from Oscar Wilde to the Present

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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Drama of Marriage

Gay Playwrights/Straight Unions from Oscar Wilde to the Present

About this book

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, Noël 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 Marriagelooks at how the plays they wrote about heterosexual marriage continue to impact contemporary gay playwrights and the depiction of marriage today.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. 1. Edward Carpenter and Oscar Wilde: Ideal and Real Marriage
  10. 2. Somerset Maugham’s Inconstant Spouses
  11. 3. Love or Marriage: Sir Noël Coward and Sir Terence Rattigan
  12. 4. Emlyn Williams: Growing into Marriage
  13. 5. Clyde Fitch and George Kelly: Spunky American Wives and Domestic Monsters
  14. 6. 1950s Marriages Sweet and Sour: Tennessee Williams and William Inge
  15. 7. Edward Albee: Marriage as Vaudeville
  16. 8. Gay Playwrights, Gay Husbands, Gay History
  17. Notes
  18. Index