Straight-acting popular gay dramatists from Wilde to Orton
Gay playwrights have dominated the West End stage since the time of Oscar Wilde. Sean O'Connor demonstrates how the subtly subversive tactics of gay writers worked in that ostensibly conservative dramatic form, the 'well made play'
Print Book, English, 1998
Cassell, London, 1998
Criticism, interpretation, etc
256 pages ; 22 cm.
9780304328666, 9780304328642, 0304328669, 0304328642
1027239517
Oscar and after; Somerset Maugham, warts and all; private lives, public faces; sentimental education; brief encounters; the devil and the deep blue sea.