In studying performances of marriage in modern and contemporary British and American drama, Clum highlights the fact that - paradoxically - at a time when theatre was both popular
entertainment and high culture, many of the most commercially and artistically successful plays about marriage were written by homosexual men. Beginning with Oscar Wilde and focusing on
some of the most successful British and American playwrights of the past century, including Somerset Maugham, No�竄l Coward, Terence Rattigan, and Emlyn Williams in England and Clyde Fitch,
George Kelly, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, and Edward Albee in the US, The Drama of Marriage looks at how the plays they wrote about heterosexual marriage continue to impact
contemporary gay playwrights and the depiction of marriage today.
