Gentlemen Callers: Tennessee Williams, Homosexuality, and Mid-Twentieth-Century Drama

by Michael Paller

Book Overview

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 one-act...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 140396775X
• ISBN13: 9781403967756
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 269 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.7" x 8.7"