James Fisher is professor of theatre and head of the theatre department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the author of several books on theatre.

• Table of ContentsPreface      1. The Angels of Fructification”: Tennessee Williams, Tony Kushner, and Images of Homosexuality on the American Stage      2. Kushner, Inge and “Little Sheba”: Strange Bedfellows      3. Blood Relations: Adrienne Kennedy and Tony Kushner      4. Then and Now: W.H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, Tony Kushner, and Fascist Creep      5. Stonewall, “Constant Historical Progress,” and Angels in America: The Neo-Hegelian Positivist Sense      6. Queer Politics to Fabulous Politics in Angels in America: Pinklisting and Forgiving Roy Cohn      7. Two Illusions: Cultural Borrowings and Transcendence      8. Reading Corneille with Brecht: The Comedy of Illusion and the Illusions of Citizenship      9. When Worlds Collide: The Kushner-Lamos A Dybbuk at Hartford Stage      10. Repairing Reality: The Media and Homebody/Kabul in New York, 2001      11. “Succumbing to Luxury”: History, Language, and Hope in Homebody/Kabul      12. The Therapy of Desire      Contributors      Index

“essays are all clearly written...recommended”—Choice; “stimulating and worthwhile”—Modern Drama; “excellent...essays offer fresh insights”—Theare Journal; “a view of Kushner as a political playwright who seems almost prophetic in his critiques of American society”—Review of Literature.