Passing Performances : Queer Readings of Leading Players in American Theater History /

Publisher description: Passing Performances gathers a range of critical and biographical essays on notable personalities whose major contributions to the stage occurred before 1969, the year of the Stonewall riots that kicked off the gay rights movement in the United States. How these theater practi...

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Diğer Yazarlar: Dolan, Jill, 1957- (writer of foreword.), Marra, Kim, 1957- (Editör), Schanke, Robert A., 1940- (Editör)
Materyal Türü: Elektronik Ekitap
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Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [1998]
Seri Bilgileri:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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  • Introduction / Robert A. Schanke and Kim Marra
  • "My noble Spartacus": Edwin Forrest and masculinity on the nineteenth-century stage / Ginger Strand
  • "Such Romeo as we had never ventured to hope for": Charlotte Cushman / Denise A. Walen
  • Bohemian on horseback: Adah Isaacs Menken / Noreen Barnes-McClain
  • Rebels of their sex: Nance O'Neil and Lizzie Borden / Jennifer Jones
  • A lesbian marriage of cultural consequence: Elisabeth Marbury and Elsie de Wolfe, 1886-1933 / Kim Marra
  • Alla Nazimova: "the witch of makeup" / Robert A. Schanke
  • Elsie Janis: "a comfortable goofiness" / Lee Alan Morrow
  • Staging heterosexuality: Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne's design for living / Sam Abel
  • Kit and Guth: a lavender marriage on Broadway / Lesley Ferris
  • Webster without tears: a daughter's journey / Milly S. Barranger
  • Cheryl Crawford: one not so naked individual / Jay Plum
  • Monty Woolley: the public and private man from Saratoga Springs / Billy J. Harbin
  • Mary Martin: washin' that man right outta her hair / Stacy Wolf
  • Joseph Cino and the first off-off broadway theater / Douglas W. Gordy.