Lovesick: Modernist Plays of Same-Sex Love, 1894-1925.Lovesick love·sick adj. 1. So deeply affected by love as to be unable to act normally. 2. Exhibiting a lover's yearning. love :Modernist Plays of Same-Sex Love, 1894-1926 * Edited by Laurence Senelick * Routledge * $23.99 Before there was Craig Lucas or Paula Vogel, there were these politically incorrect, nonjudgmental non·judg·men·tal adj. Refraining from judgment, especially one based on personal ethical standards. Adj. 1. nonjudgmental , enormously queer dramas. Theater critic and historian Laurence Senelick has collected six modernist-period plays--hailing from Britain, the United States, Germany, France, and Russia and dealing with everything from pedophilia pedophilia, psychosexual disorder in which there is a preference for sexual activity with prepubertal children. Pedophiles are almost always males. The children are more often of the opposite sex (about twice as often) and are typically 13 years or age or younger; to gay blackmail--that helped pave the way for and define contemporary homosexual theater. Each script is fortified fortified (fôrt  ´fīd),adj containing additives more potent than the principal ingredient. with reviews, behind-the-scenes details, and notes on the shows' original productions. Besides the history of queer drama, this priceless primer provides an entertaining and enlightening look at the lost vernacular and sordid situations of our queer past. |
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