Acting Gay: Male Homosexuality in Modern Drama
- Book Review,
by John C. Clum
From Library Journal
This first major study of homosexuality in modern plays conducts a whirlwind survey of texts from Marlowe's Edward II to Finn's Falsettoland , centering on modern English and American drama. Clum's theme, role-playing as the natural state of homosexual life, is traced historically from codified closet gay characters through those who suffer and reject gay life, to integration of the self with society in a vision of wholeness for the gay community. While this is clearly a study of texts, Clum applies sociology and history with passion. He is strongest with extended textual analysis, and one wishes for more such analysis here. This is, nonetheless, an important study of drama which ought to change thinking, performance, and teaching. Recommended.- Thomas E. Luddy, Salem State Coll., Mass.Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Book News, Inc.
Clum (English and theater, Duke U.) examines 20th-century American and British plays that revolve around gay men, including those by No<:;e>l Coward, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Harold Pinter, and Peter Shaffer. He considers the representation of bodies and acts, the closet dramas between 1930 and 1968, and recent works portraying a culture that has to do with more than sex. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Review
"Traces the evolution of gay themes in drama from the subtexts of the early twentieth century to the flung-open closet doors." -- The Washington Post
The Washington Post
Traces the evolution of gay themes in drama from the subtexts of the early twentieth century to the flung-open closet doors.
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