Lillian Schlissel is Director of the American Studies Program, Brooklyn College.
"...in a useful introduction, Schissel does a fine, readable
history of both West and the theater of her day. ...these
plays...are fascinating windows into another time." -- Windy City
Times
"This volume gives a glimpse of the real Mae West by publishing her
three radical, melodramatic, but quite hilarious plays for the
first time." -- Booklist
"No mere strutting sexpot, West's capacity for scathing satire
comes into full view in Three Plays by Mae West, edited by Lillian
Schlissel...Filled with the saucy argot of the New York streets,
the plays still crackle and cook." -- Publisher's Weekly
"These plays are important, original and fun. Anyone interested in
theatre and gender is going to have a new and bold face to deal
with." -- Michael Cadden, Director of the Program in Theatre and
Dance, Princeton University Mae West was many things-sexual outlaw,
wildcat feminist, actress, icon. The publication of these plays
proves that she was more complex than her movies suggest. The only
thing she did straightforwardly was to insist that her convictions
were worth fighting for...She was as close as any woman has ever
come to being one of the great American queens.
"...we can look back at Mae West with new eyes, and admire the fun
she had with sex and the control she exercised on her image and her
career." -- The Boston Book Review
"I would recommend this book to anyone interested either in the
history of gay theatre in America or in how gays were perceived in
the early decades of the twentieth century." -- Marsh Cassady,
Lambda Book Report
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