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Book Review


Staging Desire: Queer Readings of American Theater History. Ed. by Kim Marra and Robert A. Schanke. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002. x, 404 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-472-09749-0. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-472-06749-4.)
With these fifteen essays, professors Kim Marra and Robert A. Schanke offer an impressive overview of the various strategies gay men and lesbians use to present themselves on the stage. Together with Marra and Schanke's earlier collection Passing Performances (1998), Staging Desire constitutes the fullest account we currently have of the place of sexuality in American theater "before Stonewall," that is, before the riot at the Stonewall Inn in 1969 resulted in the development of a modern lesbian and gay rights movement. . . .
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