Straight acting : popular gay drama from Wilde to Rattigan /: popular gay drama from Wilde to Rattigan. (2016)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Straight acting : popular gay drama from Wilde to Rattigan /: popular gay drama from Wilde to Rattigan. (2016)
- Main Title:
- Straight acting : popular gay drama from Wilde to Rattigan
- 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).
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- Physical Locations:
- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.414885
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