Women in Turmoil: Six Plays by Mercedes De Acosta (Theater in the Americas)
Автор:Mercedes De Acosta Год: 2003 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 252 ISBN: 0809325098 Book DescriptionIn this first publication of six plays by the flamboyantly uninhibited author, poet, and playwright Mercedes de Acosta (1893?1968), theater historian Robert A. Schanke rescues these lost theatrical writings from the dusty margins of obscurity. Often autobiographical, always rife with gender struggle, and still decidedly stageworthy, Women in Turmoil: Six Plays by Mercedes de Acosta constitutes a significant find for the canon of gay and lesbian drama. In her 1960 autobiography Here Lies the Heart, de Acosta notes that as she was contemplating marriage to a man in 1920, she was "in a strange turmoil about world affairs, my own writing, suffrage, sex, and my inner spiritual development." The voice in these plays is that of a lesbian in turmoil, marginalized and ignored. Her same-sex desires and struggles for acceptance fueled her writings, and nowhere is that more evident than in the plays contained herein. The women characters struggle with unfulfilling...
