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Review Of The Most Reluctant Convert (Play), G. P. Wagenfuhr
Review Of The Most Reluctant Convert (Play), G. P. Wagenfuhr
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
Review of The Most Reluctant Convert, based on the book Surprised by Joy by C. S. Lewis, adapted by and starring Max McLean. Colorado Springs, Colorado: Pikes Peak Center, 29 June 2019.
Living By The Code: Authority In Gerard Stembridge's The Gay Detective, Kathleen A. Heininge
Living By The Code: Authority In Gerard Stembridge's The Gay Detective, Kathleen A. Heininge
Faculty Publications - Department of English
Irish drama has few representations of police officers as anything but a trope for authority, tending to avoid any substantive character development. Likewise, it has few representations of homosexual characters, and when such representations do exist they are often caricatures. Reductive portrayals of police often arise from the complex relationship the Irish have with authority and with the legal system. But one of the few exceptions to this trend, and the only play to tackle the representation of a police officer and a homosexual at once, is Gerard Stembridge’s play The Gay Detective (1996). The play offers up the character …