Essays, Scripts, and Poetry
Jack Fritscher’s essays, plays and scripts, and poetry span more than six decades of cultural criticism, literary scholarship, and firsthand gay history. His essays appear in academic journals including the Journal of Popular Culture, Modern Drama, and the Bucknell Review, in the Catholic press dating back to 1958, in the gay press, and in major encyclopedias — writing that ranges from groundbreaking Tennessee Williams scholarship to eyewitness accounts of gay liberation in San Francisco. His plays and scripts and his poetry extend that same historical eye into other forms. Together these works form an essential archive of mid-century American literature, Catholic intellectual history, and LGBTQ popular culture.
Academic
Occasional
Plays & Scripts
Poetry
Gay Press
Catholic Press
Academic: Articles & Essays
| Journal of Popular Culture |
| Tribal Theatre: Hair, Love-Rock Musical |
| Mart Crowley’s The Boys in the Band |
| Stanley Kubrick’s: 2001: A Space Odyssey |
| Bucknell Review |
| "The Sensibility and Conscious Style of William Bradford in Of Plymouth Plantation" |
| Cadence Literary |
| "Odysseus in a Field of Rye" |
| Modern Drama |
| Some Attitudes and a Posture: Religious Metaphor and Ritual in Tennessee Williams’ Query of the American God |
| Playbill |
| “We All Live on Half of Something” |
| CENSORSHIP: A World Encyclopedia |
| "What Happened When: Censorship, Gay History, and Mapplethorpe |
Occasional: Articles & Essays
| The Gay Civil War: When the Boys in the Band Attacked the Leathermen in Cruising |
Plays and Screenplays
| Plays |
| Coming Attractions |
| Screenplays |
| Duchess: Berlin 1927 |
| Golden Orchid |
Poetry
| In Development | |
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