Straight acting : popular gay drama from Wilde to Rattigan /: popular gay drama from Wilde to Rattigan. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Sean O'Connor.
• Authors: O'Connor, Sean, 1968-
• Contents: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Dedication; Introduction; Apologia; They shoot themselves, don't they?; Blue pencils, pink pens; Shall we join the ladies?; 1 Oscar and After; Serious comedy, trivial people; The quintessence of Wildism; Lady Windermere's Fan: a play about a good woman; A Woman of No Importance: a play about a good woman and a bad man; An Ideal Husband: a play about a bad man; 2 Somerset Maugham, Warts and All; Marriages made in hell; 3 Public Lives, Private Faces; Noël Coward's performance of a lifetime; Coward's way. 4 Sentimental EducationFirst Episode and French Without Tears; 5 Brief Encounters; Two films by Noël Coward: Brief Encounter and The Astonished Heart; 6 Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea; Three dramas by Terence Rattigan; Table by the Window; Table Number Seven; Epilogue; Goodbye to all that; Chronology; Notes; Index.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 822/.91099206642; English drama -- Male authors -- History and criticism; Homosexuality and literature -- Great Britain -- History; Popular literature -- Great Britain -- History and criticism; Gay men's writings, English -- History and criticism; Gay men in literature; DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Drama; Englisch; Homosexualität; Criticism and interpretation; Gay men in literature; Gay men's writings, English; Homosexuality and literature; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); Popular literature; Great Britain; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History; Dramatic works; Criticism and interpretation; Criticism and interpretation; Influence
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781474288286; 1474288286
• Related ISBNs: 9780304328642
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource, title from PDF title page (EBSCO), viewed August 31, 2016.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.