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Forbidden Acts


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Forbidden Acts. (Pioneering Gay & Lesbian Plays of the 20th Century). Applause Books. Softcover. 744 pages. Published by Applause Books.

Applause Theatre & Cinema Books is proud to announce the publication of the first collected anthology of gay and lesbian plays from the entire span of the twentieth century, sure to find wide acceptance by general readers and to be studied on campuses around the world. Among the ten plays, three are completely out of print.

Included are The God of Venegeance (1918) by Sholom Ash, the first play to introduce lesbian characters to an English-language audience * Lillian Hellmans classic The Childrens Hour (1933), initially banned in London and passed over for the Pulitzer Prize because of its subject matter * and Oscar Wilde (1938) by Leslie and Sewell Stokes, a major award-winning success that starred Robert Morley.

More recent plays include Mart Crowleys The Boys in the Band (1968), the first hit








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