![]() In this context, this dissertation aims at studying the changing portrayals of gay and queer identities in Julian Mitchell’s Another Country, Jonathan Harvey’s Beautiful Thing and Mark Ravenhill’s Mother Clap’s Molly House by relating these plays to the social, political and theoretical discussions on gay and queer identities in the decades they were written in. From the early 1970s onwards, following the decriminalisation of homosexuality and the abolishment of the censorship, the representations of homosexuality in British drama changed swiftly, and after the first plays staged in the fringe theatres in the 1970s, gay plays started to be staged in the mainstream theatres in Britain. ![]() Even in the earliest and most coded forms, the representations of homosexuality in British drama reflected the social, political and cultural perceptions of homosexuality beyond the plays and contributed to their dissemination.
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