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Sex, Gender, and Sexualities in the Plays of Edward Albee contains a general introduction and eleven essays by American and European Albee scholars on Albee’s depictions of gender relations, sexual relations, monogamy, child-rearing, and homosexuality. The volume includes close readings of individual plays and more general theoretical and historical discussions. Contributors: Henry Albright, Mary Ann Barfield, Araceli Gonzalez Crespan, Andrew Darr, John M. Clum, Paul Grant, Emeline Jouve, T. Ross Leasure, David Marcia, Cormac O’Brien, Donald Pease, Valentine Vasak

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Author:   John M. Clum ,  Cormac O'Brien
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   2
Weight:   0.456kg
ISBN:  

9789004358362

ISBN 10:   9004358366
Pages:   194
Publication Date:   22 March 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors Editors’ Introduction  John M. Clum and Cormac O’Brien 1 Dismembering/Remembering: Dramatizing the Family in The American Dream  Emeline Jouve 2 The Gay Geography of New York City in The Zoo Story  T. Ross Leasure 3 Revisiting the Zoo: Time and Gender in Edward Albee’s At Home at the Zoo  Andrew Darr 4 “The Aims of Spirit”: Performing Marriage in Albee’s Plays  David Marcia 5 Collateral Damage: Raising and Destroying [Gay?] Sons in Albee’s Plays  John M. Clum 6 A Body of One’s Own: Martha’s Performative Physicality in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?  Mary Ann Barfield 7 The Uncrossable Line: Reading Martha as Transgender in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?  Henry Albright 8 The Tragic (Male) Hero in the Wake of the New Millennium: Upturning Gender and Sexuality in The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?  Araceli González Crespán 9 “Do you want it?” The Commodification of Sexuality in the Late Plays of Edward Albee  Valentine Vasak 10 Malcolm, Sexual Politics, Edward Albee’s Adaptations  Donald E. Pease 11 “A wet run, so to speak”: Sexuality in Edward Albee’s Lolita  Paul Benedict Grant Bibliography Index

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John M. Clum is Professor Emeritus of Theater Studies and English at Duke University. His nine books include Acting Gay: Male Homosexuality in Modern Drama, Something for the Boys: Musical Theater and Gay Culture and, most recently, Terrence McNally and American Gay Drama, 1965-2015. He is also a playwright and opera librettist. Cormac O’Brien, Assistant Professor of Anglo-Irish Drama at University College Dublin, is a specialist in modern and contemporary Irish drama and in Medical Humanities. He has published widely on masculinities and queer sexualities in Irish theatre, as well as on HIV and AIDS in Irish culture and performance. He is the author of Masculinities and Manhood in Contemporary Irish Drama: Acting the Man (2018).

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