Gentlemen Callers: Tennessee Williams, Homosexuality, and Mid-Twentieth-Century Drama (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781403967756)

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 1940s through the 1960s 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-F?, 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 1970s, many gay liberationists reviled them. Lively, blunt, and provocative, this book will appeal to anyone who loves Williams, Broadway, and the theater.

Author: M. Paller
ISBN-10: 140396775X
ISBN-13: 9781403967756
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 05/11/2005
Pages: 269
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.73w x 1.19d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2005 pg. 218
Choice 02/01/2006 pg. 1018