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Queer Theatre in Canada
Edited by Rosalind Kerr
Series edited by Ric Knowles
Includes:Sexuality and Identity in Fortune and Men's Eyes by Neil Carson (1972)Homo Creation: Towards a Poetics of Gay Male Theatre by Robert Wallace (1994)"That's Why I Go to the Gym": Sexual Identity and the Body of the Male Performer by Reid Gilbert (1994)Only in Alberta?: ... Read more
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Includes:Sexuality and Identity in Fortune and Men's Eyes by Neil Carson (1972)Homo Creation: Towards a Poetics of Gay Male Theatre by Robert Wallace (1994)"That's Why I Go to the Gym": Sexual Identity and the Body of the Male Performer by Reid Gilbert (1994)Only in Alberta?: Angels in America and Canada by Susan Bennett (1996)Queer(y)ing the Canadian Stage: Brad Fraser's Poor Superman by Marcia Blumberg (1996)Wrestling with a Double Standard by Darrin Hagen (1999)Hosanna! Michel Tremblay's Queering of National Identity by Elaine Pigeon (2001)The Elephant, the Mouse, and the Lesbian National Park Rangers by B. J. Wray (2001)"Performing Femininity" On Stage and Off: Confronting Effeminaphobia Through Drag Performance by David Bateman (2002)The Configurations of Gender in Tomson Highway's Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing by Susan Billingham (2003)Brothers' Keepers, or, The Performance of Mourning: Queer Rituals of Remembrance by Peter Dickinson (2004)Strange Sisters and Boy Kings: Post-Queer Tranz-gendered Bodies in Performance by J. Bobby Noble (2005)Get Your ‘Boy' On! Politics of Parody and Embodiment in ‘Drag' Performances in Toronto by Frances J. Latchford (2007)Making a Spectacle: The ‘Danger' of Drag Performance in Two Canadian Pride Parades by Judith R. Anderson (2007)Passionate Performances: Pol Pelletier and Experimental Feminist Theatre Beyond Barriers of Language (1975–1985) by Louise Forsyth (2007)Staging Lesbian Sex and the City by Rosalind Kerr (2007)Potluck Feminism—Where's the Meat?: Sonja Mills' Comedy of Resistance by Ann Holloway (2007)Queer and Now: The Queer Signifier at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre by J. Paul Halferty (2007)"Writing Gay: Is it Still Possible?" by Sky Gilbert (2007)Cultivating Queer: The Invisibility of the Canadian Gay Play by David Allan King (2007) Cheep Queers by Mariko Tamaki (2007)Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English sets out to make the best critical and scholarly work in the field readily available. The series publishes the work of scholars and critics who have traced the coming-into-prominence of a vibrant theatrical community in English Canada.
Rosalind Kerr
Rosalind Kerr is Associate Professor of Dramatic Theory in the Department of Drama at the University of Alberta. She combines her studies of the sixteenth-century Italian commedia dell'arte actresses and the impact that they had on shaping the early modern stage, with her work on contemporary Canadian experimental and queer theatre. She also has experience as a dramaturge, actor, and director.
Ric Knowles
Ric Knowles is a freelance dramaturge and University Professor Emeritus at the University of Guelph. He is the award-winning author or editor of twenty books on theatre and performance, including Fundamentals of Directing, Judith Thompson, The Masks of Judith Thompson, "Ethnic," Multicultural, and Intercultural Theatre (with Ingrid Mündel), The Shakespeare’s Mine, Asian Canadian Theatre (with Nina Lee Aquino), Staging Coyote’s Dream (two volumes, with Monique Mojica), and Performing Indigeneity (with Yvette Nolan). He is also founding editor of the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English and New Essays on Canadian Theatre.
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- Dimensions 312 pages, 6.01 x 8.99 x .71 in
- Published May 1, 2007
- Publisher Playwrights Canada Press
- Category Literary Criticism
- Keywords Drama , Gay Studies , Canadian
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