Neil Bartlett: Invitations to Speculate (1) (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies)

Synopsis

This book explores Neil Bartlett’s groundbreaking contributions to queer cultural production in the United Kingdom. It adopts a range of critical perspectives, presenting original scholarship on Bartlett’s fiction, theatre, performance, site-specific work, and adaptations, as well as more personal reflections on Bartlett’s influence and legacy.Charting his emergence as a radical queer artist in the 1970s, his writing for performance and theatre in the 1980s to the present day, and his evocative novels about queer spaces and hidden histories, the book considers Bartlett’s works as ‘invitations to speculate’: to view and imagine otherwise, as part of a political aesthetics committed to making queer lives visible. Bartlett’s bold, sensuous, and challenging work crosses genres to find new ways of articulating queer desires, unearthing histories of the body, pleasure, and gay subjectivity while connecting queer experiences across time.Dealing with topics including memory and loss, AIDS and its legacy, marginality, community, and identity, the collection shows how Bartlett embraces the past as a way of reimagining queer futures and demonstrates his status as one of the UK’s leading queer artists.

Copyright:

2025

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

236 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781040330821

Related ISBNs:

9781032668307, 9781040330791, 9781032668284

Publisher:

Taylor & Francis

Date of Addition:

03/27/25

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, William McEvoy and Joseph Ronan

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Drama, Plays and Theater, Language Arts

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Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

null William McEvoy

Edited by:

null Joseph Ronan