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Aaron C. Thomas

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Aaron C. Thomas is an associate professor in the School of Theatre at Florida State University and director of the School’s BA program. His major research area is theatrical discourse surrounding sexuality and violence, and he writes primarily about images of violent masculinity in contemporary culture. As an antidote to writing about violence, he also writes extensively in the field of musical theatre studies, where his work focuses on theatrical discourse surrounding sexuality, masculinity, and violence.

Dr. Thomas is the author of Love Is Love Is Love: Broadway Musicals and LGBTQ Politics, 2010–2020 (2023) and Sondheim and Wheeler’s Sweeney Todd (2018). His current book project, The Violate Man, interrogates images of male/male sexual vio ...more

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	The Disney Musical on Stage and Screen: Critical Approaches from 'Snow White' to 'Frozen' by George Rodosthenous (Editor), Elizabeth Randell Upton (Contributor), Raymond Knapp (Contributor) 3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Theatre as Voyeurism: The Pleasures of Watching by George Rodosthenous (Editor), Laurens De Vos (Contributor), Eleni Papalexiou (Contributor) 3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Routledge Companion to the Contemporary Musical by Jessica Sternfeld (Editor), Elizabeth L. Wollman (Contributor), Katie Welsh (Contributor) 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Female Desires by Blackwood & Wieringa

Female Desires: Same-Sex Relations and Transgender Practices across Cultures by Evelyn Blackwood

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This book starts off great. The two essays (co-written by the editors) that begin the collection are excellent, and they give a good overview of the field as it currently exists. The subsequent essays discuss differing gender performances, gender identities, sexual practices, Read more of this blog post »

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Three Renaissance Travel Plays (Revels Plays Companion Library)

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This Book Is Full of Holes: Literary Bodies and the Invention of an Idiom

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Read this for the fourth time today. The monologue at the end absolutely guts me and I’m not completely sure why. It’s a simple list of items included in a Bakewell Tart, but Gastronomic traces when each item came to England. A dish that feels so ext ...more
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A truly wacky Middleton/Heywood/Rowley effort. This may be one of the weirdest plays I've read from 17th century England. The Rowley part is typical clown behavior from him, but things have a steely bent to them here. And this is also quite funny. Th ...more
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