The Rough and the Tumble: Queer Themes in Robert Lord’s Plays

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The Rough and the Tumble: Queer Themes in Robert Lord’s Plays

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University of Otago

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Critics and academics have mentioned Lord's queer repertoire only briefly,1 but James Wenley and Nathan Joe recently suggested that his plays are 'overdue a queer re-reading' in order to foster 'meaningful contemporary connections with our queer theatre history'.2 Such a re-reading might explore how Lord's plays pre-empted several key impulses of queer theory, a set of perspectives that coalesced after 1990 but drew upon literatures and activisms with a longer history.3 Lord also critiqued su...

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Research paper

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Article

Date created

2024-04-01

Creator

Brickell, Chris

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https://hdl.handle.net/10523/39852

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Audiences / Diaries / Drama / Dramatists / Feminism / LGBTQ people / Males / Men / Theater

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