Staging Desire: Queer Readings of American Theater History
Staging Desire gathers critical and biographical essays on notable stage personalities who made their mark before 1969, when the Stonewall riots accelerated the lesbian and gay rights movement in the United States. How they staged their unconventional sexualities greatly influenced the course of their personal and professional lives, and thus the course of American theater history. The book builds on an earlier collection--the well-received Passing Performances, which focused on actors,...
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Recovers the hidden history of theater professionals who transgressed the gendered expectations of their time
Introduction1Clyde Fitch's Too Wilde Love23Rachel Crothers: An Exceptional Woman in a Man's World55Say What You Will about Mercedes de Acosta81Djuna Barnes: The Most Famous Unknown105George Kelly, American Playwright: Characters in the Hands of an Angry God126Let's Do It: The Layered Life of Cole Porter145Lorenz Hart: This Can't Be Love167Dorothy's Friend in Kansas: The Gay Inflections of William Inge194"Appealing to the Passions": Homoerotic Desire and Nineteenth-Century Theater Criticism221"That's the Kind of Gal I Am": Drag Balls, Lulu Belles, and "Sexual Perversion" in the Harlem Renaissance262The Gay Man as Thinker: Eric Bentley's Many Closets288The Electric Fairy: The Woman behind the Apparition of Loie Fuller311"Not as Other Boys": Robert Edmond Jones and Designs of Desire338A Lifetime in Light: Jean Rosenthal's Careers, Collaborations, and Commitments to Women365Notes on the Contributors391Index395
