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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Main Author: Schildcrout, Jordan (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press 2014
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