LEADER 04451nam 2200673 450 001 9910807261503321 005 20201023111955.0 010 $a1-4742-8829-4 010 $a1-4742-8828-6 024 7 $a10.5040/9781474288293 035 $a(CKB)3710000000840838 035 $a(EBL)4659878 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4659878 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11252547 035 $a(OCoLC)957525010 035 $a(OCoLC)1201427230 035 $a(CaBNVSL)9781474288293 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4659878 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000840838 100 $a20201023d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aStraight acting $epopular gay drama from Wilde to Rattigan /$fSean O'Connor 210 1$aLondon, England :$cBloomsbury Academic,$d2020. 210 2$aLondon, England :$cBloomsbury Publishing,$d2020 215 $a1 online resource (274 p.) 225 1 $aBloomsbury academic collections. Film studies : European cinema. 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4742-8827-8 311 $a0-304-32864-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Dedication; Introduction; Apologia; They shoot themselves, don't they?; Blue pencils, pink pens; Shall we join the ladies?; 1 Oscar and After; Serious comedy, trivial people; The quintessence of Wildism; Lady Windermere's Fan: a play about a good woman; A Woman of No Importance: a play about a good woman and a bad man; An Ideal Husband: a play about a bad man; 2 Somerset Maugham, Warts and All; Marriages made in hell; 3 Public Lives, Private Faces; Noe?l Coward's performance of a lifetime; Coward's way. 327 $a4 Sentimental EducationFirst Episode and French Without Tears; 5 Brief Encounters; Two films by Noe?l Coward: Brief Encounter and The Astonished Heart; 6 Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea; Three dramas by Terence Rattigan; Table by the Window; Table Number Seven; Epilogue; Goodbye to all that; Chronology; Notes; Index. 330 $a"Between the trials of Oscar Wilde in the 1890s and the beginnings of legal reforms in the 1960s, the West End stage was dominated by the work of gay playwrights. Many of their plays, such as Private Lives , Blithe Spirit and The Deep Blue Sea are established classics and continue to inform our culture. In this fascinating book, covering both familiar and lesser-known works, Sean O'Connor examines the legacy of Wilde as a playwright and as a gay man, and explores in the works of Somerset Maugham, Noel Coward and Terence Rattigan the resonance of Wilde's agenda for tolerance and his creed of individuality. O'Connor contextualises these plays against the enormous social and historical changes of the twentieth century. He also examines the legal restrictions which regulated the personal lives of these writers and required them to evolve sophisticated strategies in order to express on stage, albeit obliquely, their dilemmas as gay men. From the delicate homoerotic frissons of Rattigan's early comedies to Coward's defiantly pro-sex stance, Straight Acting is a provocative and witty insight into the subtly subversive tactics of gay writers working in that apparently most conservative of forms, the 'well-made play'."--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aBloomsbury academic collections.$pFilm studies : European cinema. 606 $aEnglish drama$xMale authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aHomosexuality and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aPopular literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory and criticism 606 $aGay men's writings, English$xHistory and criticism 606 $aGay men in literature 606 $aFilms, cinema$2bicssc 615 0$aEnglish drama$xMale authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aHomosexuality and literature$xHistory. 615 0$aPopular literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aGay men's writings, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aGay men in literature. 615 7$aFilms, cinema 676 $a822/.91099206642 700 $aO'Connor$b Sean$f1968-$0955975 801 0$bN 801 1$bCaBNVSL 801 2$bCaBNVSL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807261503321 996 $aStraight acting$94014800 997 $aUNINA