Murder Most Queer The Homicidal Homosexual in the American Theater
The "villainous homosexual" has long stalked America's cultural imagination, most explicitly in the figure of the queer murderer, a character in dozens of plays. But as society's understanding of homosexuality has changed, so has the significance of these controversial characters...
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University of Michigan Press
2014
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