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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
	Sondheim and Wheeler's Sweeney Todd 3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings — 5 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
	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 — 7 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
	Love Is Love Is Love: Broadway Musicals and LGBTQ Politics, 2010-2020 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 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 Violate Man: Male/Male Rape in the American Imagination 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 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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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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Aztec Antichrist: Performing the Apocalypse in Early Colonial Mexico (IMS Monograph Series) (Volume 1)

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This play really cleverly and sensitively puts the loss of Indigenous life under settler colonialism next to the settlers' own myths of lost life, destroyed womanhood, and heteronormative futurity. This is a beautiful piece that is also heavily depen ...more
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With a brilliant writing style and an exceptional care turned toward the subjects of its study, Myth and Menagerie looks with detail and sensitivity at the lions in nineteenth century works of art—some famous and some generally dismissed as beneath t ...more
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Aaron Thomas rated a book it was amazing The Chief Rivals of Corneille and Racine by Charles Lacy Lockert Jr.	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
I have so many good things to say about this truly essential collection. For some reason I read Lockert's second collection—More Plays by Rivals of Corneille and Racine—before reading this one, but either way I feel really thankful to have been able ...more
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This is somewhat of a retelling of the English Restoration tragedy Venice Preserv'd, but it moves the situation of Otway's play from Republican Venice to Republican Rome and the legend of Manlius Capitolinus's sedition in 384 BCE. I am of two minds a ...more
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This is great. Andronic is a retelling of the Carlos of Asturias legend—nearly 100 years before Alfieri and Schiller would write their Don Carlos plays. It is here highly fictionalized and transferred to the court of John V Palaiologos in 14th centur ...more
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