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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
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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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This is a gruesome little gothic tale. The form the play takes is a bit limiting, however. It's a tale told in a realist mode and from the point of view of a kind of enormous reveal for which we wait with bated breath. The reveal, however, ends up no ...more
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A second short book from Stephen Orgel a year after 2023's The Idea of the Book and the Creation of Literature also published in the in the Oxford Textual Perspectives series. It's rather odd, particularly because this new book, The Globe in Print: t ...more
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I really don't get this. Chapter 1 and Chapter 6 are indeed about what a book is and how books as objects shape what we read and how we read it. Chapter 2, though, is about how plays are actually performed activities and how their appearance on paper ...more
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Leave Taking by Winsome Pinnock
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Early Winsome Pinnock. This was written before A Hero's Welcome but was produced after it. It's very strong. The kind of play about mothers and daughters and immigration to the UK. Pinnock did it first (and best). This is a classic in the British the ...more
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This is good, but it does feel like it's slightly off-aim from the first three plays—mostly because James IV himself is not the focus of this play, and we get a lot more courtier squabbling rather than a portrait of James's own ambitions, interests, ...more
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Sexy and shape-shifting and obsessed with religious imagery. I loved how strangely horny and medieval these poems were.
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