Robert A. Schanke Books
Queer theatre and the legacy of Cal Yeomans
"A forgotten yet award-winning playwright, Cal Yeomans was one of the founders of gay theatre whose work was fueled by gay liberation and extinguished by the AIDS epidemic. Exploring both sex and s...
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By Robert A. Schanke, Mercedes De Acosta, Acosta Mercedes De 1893 1968.
"In 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 theatrica...
Read MoreThat furious lesbian
"In the first book-length biography of Mercedes de Acosta, theater historian Robert A. Schanke adroitly mines lost archival materials and mixes in his own interviews with de Acosta's intimates to c...
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