A Gay Century: Volume One: 1900–1962
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| Title: | A Gay Century: Volume One: 1900–1962 |
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| Description: | ‘A Gay Century: Vol 1'is a canter through 60 years of gay history in ten serious or comic playlets. Wilde's deathbed encounter with Queen Victoria; the theft of the Irish crown jewels by a sadomasochistic cabal in Dublin Castle; Compton Mackenzie demanding of the Home Secretary that his own lesbian novel be prosecuted like ‘The Well of Loneliness', because he needs the money; matinee idol Ivor Novello sharing a cell in Wandsworth with teenage psycho ‘Mad'Frankie Fraser; the Jeremy Thorpe/Norman Scott affair seen through the eyes of the dogs involved, etc. etc. A sideways look at our queer past offers vivid vignettes which may or may not be true - and if they're not, they ought to be. |
| Authors: | Peter Scott-Presland |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Moral conditions--20th century--Drama, Gay people--Biography--20th century--Drama, Sexual minorities--Drama, Sexual orientation--Drama |
| Categories: | DRAMA / General |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | ‘A Gay Century: Vol 1'is a canter through 60 years of gay history in ten serious or comic playlets. Wilde's deathbed encounter with Queen Victoria; the theft of the Irish crown jewels by a sadomasochistic cabal in Dublin Castle; Compton Mackenzie demanding of the Home Secretary that his own lesbian novel be prosecuted like ‘The Well of Loneliness', because he needs the money; matinee idol Ivor Novello sharing a cell in Wandsworth with teenage psycho ‘Mad'Frankie Fraser; the Jeremy Thorpe/Norman Scott affair seen through the eyes of the dogs involved, etc. etc. A sideways look at our queer past offers vivid vignettes which may or may not be true - and if they're not, they ought to be. |
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| ISBN: | 9781839783821 |
