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9781403967756

Gentlemen Callers : Tennessee Williams, Homosexuality, and Mid-Twentieth-Century Drama

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    9781403967756

  • ISBN10:

    140396775X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2005-04-16
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

Gentlemen Callersprovides a fascinating look at America's greatest twentieth-century playwright and perhaps the most-performed, even today. Michael Paller looks at Tennessee Williams's plays from the 1940s through the 1960s against the backdrop of the playwright's life story, providing fresh details. Through this lens Paller examines the evolution of mid-twentieth-century America's acknowledgment and acceptance of homosexuality. From the early one-actAuto-da-Fe andThe Glass MenageriethroughCamino Real, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,Garden Districtand the lateSomething Cloudy, Something Clear, Paller's book investigates how Williams's earliest critics marginalized or ignored his gay characters and why, beginning in the 1970s, many gay liberationists reviled them. Lively, blunt, and provocative, this book will appeal to anyone who loves Williams, Broadway, and the theater.

Author Biography

Michael Paller has written theater reviews for the Washington Post, Village Voice, Newsday, and Mirabella magazine. He teaches at Columbia University and the State University of New York at Purchase. Michael lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1(4)
The Signs Are Interior
5(44)
The Time and World That I Live In
49(36)
Something Kept on Ice
85(30)
A True Story of Our Time
115(42)
Almost Willfully Out of Contact with the World
157(52)
``Before My Clean Heart Has Grown Dirty . . .''
209(28)
Notes 237(20)
Bibliography 257(4)
Index 261

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