02938nam 2200661Ia 450 991045058180332120200520144314.01-281-36442-897866113644271-4039-7914-6(CKB)1000000000342787(SSID)ssj0000161820(PQKBManifestationID)11149488(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000161820(PQKBWorkID)10198446(PQKB)10815201(DE-He213)978-1-4039-7914-8(MiAaPQ)EBC307816(Au-PeEL)EBL307816(CaPaEBR)ebr10135439(CaONFJC)MIL136442(OCoLC)312463977(EXLCZ)99100000000034278720040805d2005 uy 0engurnn#008mamaatxtccrGentlemen callers[electronic resource] Tennessee Williams, homosexuality, and mid-twentieth century Broadway drama /Michael Paller1st ed. 2005.New York Palgrave Macmillanc20051 online resource (XIII, 269 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-349-53018-2 1-4039-6775-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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 1940's through the 1960's 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-Fé , 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 1970's, many gay liberationists reviled them. Lively, blunt, and provocative, this book will appeal to anyone who loves Williams, Broadway, and the theater.Homosexuality and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryMale homosexuality in literatureSexual orientation in literatureGay men in literatureSex in literatureElectronic books.Homosexuality and literatureHistoryMale homosexuality in literature.Sexual orientation in literature.Gay men in literature.Sex in literature.812/.54Paller Michael911823MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910450581803321Gentlemen callers2041951UNINA