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Lovesick brings together an international collection of plays, from Britain, the US, Germany, France and Russia, depicting types of homosexual or same-sex love. The majority of these six fin-de-siecle plays are previously unpublished in English or in any language, and each comes enhanced with an editorial introduction, author biography, contemporary review coverage and production history. The plays included are: * The Blackmailers, a society comedy by Oscar Wildes associates John Gray and Andre Raffalovich * At Saint Judass, a symbolist one-act play of unrequited love, by Henry Blake Fuller * Mistakes, a problem drama about social persecution by Herbert Hirschberg * The dangerous Precaution, a poetic fable of cross-dressing by Mikhail Kuzmin * The Gentlemen of Chrysanthemums, a comedy of manners about the homosexual as celebrity, by Amory * Ania and Esther, a lyrical drama of troubled adolescence by Klaus Mann The volume includes a substantial; introduction by Laurence Senelick, providing a valuable historical overview of the ancestry of gay theatre and queer perfomance. Making available a legacy of homosexual dramas of the past.
Lovesick is a must-have volume for researchers and students of theatre history and lesbian and gay studies. it will also be of compelling interest to those within comparative literature, cultural studies, and sexology, as well as actors, directors and theatre-lovers.
Lovesick brings together an international collection of plays, from Britain, the US, Germany, France and Russia, depicting types of homosexual or same-sex love. The majority of these six fin-de-siecle plays are previously unpublished in English or in any language, and each comes enhanced with an editorial introduction, author biography, contemporary review coverage and production history. The plays included are: * The Blackmailers, a society comedy by Oscar Wildes associates John Gray and Andre Raffalovich * At Saint Judass, a symbolist one-act play of unrequited love, by Henry Blake Fuller * Mistakes, a problem drama about social persecution by Herbert Hirschberg * The dangerous Precaution, a poetic fable of cross-dressing by Mikhail Kuzmin * The Gentlemen of Chrysanthemums, a comedy of manners about the homosexual as celebrity, by Amory * Ania and Esther, a lyrical drama of troubled adolescence by Klaus Mann The volume includes a substantial; introduction by Laurence Senelick, providing a valuable historical overview of the ancestry of gay theatre and queer perfomance. Making available a legacy of homosexual dramas of the past.
Lovesick is a must-have volume for researchers and students of theatre history and lesbian and gay studies. it will also be of compelling interest to those within comparative literature, cultural studies, and sexology, as well as actors, directors and theatre-lovers.
Preface, List of Illustrations, General Introduction, The Blackmailers, by John Gray and Marc Andre Raffalovich, At saint Judas's, by Henry Blake Fuller, "Mistakes", by Herbert Hirschberg, The Dangerous Precaution, by Mikhail Kuzmin, The Gentleman of the Chrysanthemums, by Armory (Carle Dauriac), Ania and Esther, by Klaus Mann.
Senelick, Laurence
"Senelick provides lucid, jargon-free intorductions--to the book
and to each play... Oversized, with double-columned print, the book
is worth its price and should be in all academic and large public
libraries."
-"Choice January 2000
"Besides the history of queer drama, this priceless primer provides
an entertaining and enlightening look at the lost vernacular and
sordid situations of our queer past."
-"The Advocate
"[These plays] represent an important piece of gay and lesbian
history. Recommended for theater arts and gay/lesbian
collections."
-"Library Journal, 3/99
"Senelick provides lucid, jargon-free intorductions--to the book
and to each play... Oversized, with double-columned print, the book
is worth its price and should be in all academic and large public
libraries."
-"Choice January 2000
"Besides the history of queer drama, this priceless primer provides
an entertaining and enlightening look at the lost vernacular and
sordid situations of our queer past."
-"The Advocate
"[These plays] represent an important piece of gay and lesbian
history. Recommended for theater arts and gay/lesbian
collections."
-"Library Journal, 3/99
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