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Gentlemen Callers: Tennessee Williams, Homosexuality, and Mid-Twentieth-Century Drama Hardcover - 2005 - 2005th Edition

by M. Paller


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Gentlemen Callers provides 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 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and one-act Auto-da-F, through The Two-Character Play and Something 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.

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"Tennessee Williams was America's most original dramatic talent. He was also gay. The significance of this fact is explored by Michael Paller in a book full of striking insights into the man, the plays, and the theatre of which he was a part. What emerges from this study is a familiar figure seen in a new complexity. What also emerges is an America whose oppressive laws and casual cruelties toward those who shared his sexuality in part created the pressures which created the context, if not always the subject, of his art."--Christopher Bigsby, Professor of American Studies at the University of East Anglia and Director of the Arthur Miller Centre

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  • Title Gentlemen Callers: Tennessee Williams, Homosexuality, and Mid-Twentieth-Century Drama
  • Author M. Paller
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 2005th
  • Edition 2005
  • Pages 269
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Palgrave MacMillan, New York, NY
  • Date 2005-05-11
  • ISBN 9781403967756 / 140396775X
  • Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.7 x 5.73 x 1.19 in (22.10 x 14.55 x 3.02 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Gay
    • Topical: Lgbt
  • Library of Congress subjects United States, History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004054129
  • Dewey Decimal Code 812.54

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Citations

  • Choice, 02/01/2006, Page 1018
  • Kirkus Reviews, 02/15/2005, Page 218

About the author

MICHAEL PALLER teaches at Columbia University and the State University of New York at Purchase, and lives in New York City, USA.
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