Murder Most Queer
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Murder Most Queer: The Homicidal Homosexual in the American Theater examines the shifting meanings of murderous LGBT characters in the American theater from the 1920s to today, showing how these controversial representations wrestle with and ultimately subvert the archetype of the “villainous homosexual.”

Reviews
"The author avoids simplified readings of the queer killers he describes, opting instead for nuanced, generous readings of potentially homophobic portrayals that offer much more for students of gay and lesbian theatre... Murder Most Queer will be especially helpful in courses about gay and lesbian theatre and performance." -- Aaron C. Thomas, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism

"An original, well-researched, and immensely readable book [that] not only recovers a history of homicidal characters, but also illuminates the social and psychic importance such characters have had in shaping and reshaping the meanings of gay and lesbian experience for much of the 20th century."
-- James Polchin, Gay and Lesbian Review

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Available from University of Michigan Press
and other booksellers

Author Jordan Schildcrout
is Professor of
Theatre & Performance at Purchase College, SUNY



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Plays discussed in the book include:

The Drag by Mae West
Rope by Patrick Hamilton
Compulsion by Meyer Levin
Never the Sinner by John Logan
Thrill Me by Stephen Dolginoff
Deathtrap by Ira Levin
Bluebeard by Charles Ludlam
Vampire Lesbians of Sodom by Charles Busch




The Rocky Horror Show
by Richard O'Brien
The Well of Horniness
by Holly Hughes
Lesbians Who Kill by Split Britches
The Secretaries by the Five Lesbian Brothers
Strangers in Paradox by Kate Bornstein

The Lisbon Traviata by Terrence McNally
Porcelain by Chay Yew
Pterodactyls by Nicky Silver


The Gospel According to Miss Roj by George C. Wolfe
The Dying Gaul by Craig Lucas

The Law of Remains by Reza Abdoh
Fascination by Jim Grimsley
Self Defense by Carson Kreitzer
Jerk by Dennis Cooper /
Gisèle Vienne
Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates / Bill Connington
Betty's Summer Vacation by Christopher Durang

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