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Redl is historically represented as a heroic homosexual, but is actually a heteronormative object. I provide evidence for this interpretation by employing Savran to conduct a close reading of the play <em>A Patriot for Me</em>. I also provide in my Conclusion an analysis of a notebook in the Osborne archives, purported by biographer John Heilpern to be simply notes for <em>A Patriot for Me</em>, but which actually contain many private ruminations on Osborne’s sexual politics that shed light on his thoughts concerning homosexuality.","abstract_html":"By applying David Savran’s scholarship on the politics of masculinity to John Osborne’s play &lt;em&gt;A Patriot for Me &lt;/em&gt;(1965), I demonstrate that Osborne exemplified contradictory sexual politics in the play, and was criticized as homophobic and praised as revolutionary in similarly contradictory original reviews. I argue that play very much typifies the heteronormative politics of masculinity by placing a dominant homosexual (Redl) as protagonist, and inverts the positions of the period woman and the staged effeminate man. Redl is historically represented as a heroic homosexual, but is actually a heteronormative object. I provide evidence for this interpretation by employing Savran to conduct a close reading of the play &lt;em&gt;A Patriot for Me&lt;/em&gt;. I also provide in my Conclusion an analysis of a notebook in the Osborne archives, purported by biographer John Heilpern to be simply notes for &lt;em&gt;A Patriot for Me&lt;/em&gt;, but which actually contain many private ruminations on Osborne’s sexual politics that shed light on his thoughts concerning homosexuality.","abstract_has_math":false,"creators":["Kelly, Joshua"],"institution":null,"degree_name":"Master of Arts (MA)","degree_level":null,"degree_discipline":"Theatre Studies","degree_department":null,"school":null,"contributors":["Jay Ball","Mark Auslander","George Bellah"],"advisors":[],"committee_chairs":[],"committee_members":[],"year":2016,"date_issued":"2016-01-01T08:00:00Z","date_published":"2016-01-01T08:00:00Z","updated_at":"2026-07-24T01:36:48Z","subjects":["John Osborne","A Patriot for Me","David Savran","theatre","masculine politics","homosexual","Dramatic Literature, Criticism and Theory","Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies","Other Theatre and Performance Studies","Theatre History"],"languages":["English"],"rights":[],"rights_urls":[],"identifier_entries":[]},"links":{"outbound_url":"https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/etd/360","outbound_label":"Repository record","outbound_source":"dc:identifier"},"metadata_groups":[{"id":"people","label":"People","entries":[{"key":"dc:contributor","label":"Contributor","values":["Jay Ball","Mark Auslander","George Bellah"]},{"key":"dc:creator","label":"Author","values":["Kelly, Joshua"]}]},{"id":"academic_context","label":"Academic Context","entries":[{"key":"dc:date.available","label":"Dc Date Available","values":["2021-06-15T07:00:00Z"]},{"key":"dc:type","label":"Dc Type","values":["Text"]},{"key":"thesis:degree_discipline","label":"Discipline","values":["Theatre Studies"]},{"key":"thesis:degree_name","label":"Degree Name","values":["Master of Arts (MA)"]}]},{"id":"subjects_keywords","label":"Subjects and Keywords","entries":[{"key":"dc:subject","label":"Dc Subject","values":["John Osborne","A Patriot for Me","David Savran","theatre","masculine politics","homosexual","Dramatic Literature, Criticism and Theory","Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies","Other Theatre and Performance Studies","Theatre History"]}]},{"id":"language_rights","label":"Language and Rights","entries":[{"key":"dc:language","label":"Dc Language","values":["English"]}]},{"id":"identifiers","label":"Identifiers","entries":[{"key":"dc:identifier","label":"Identifier","values":["https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/etd/360"]}]},{"id":"additional","label":"Additional Metadata","entries":[{"key":"dc:description.abstract","label":"Abstract","values":["By applying David Savran’s scholarship on the politics of masculinity to John Osborne’s play <em>A Patriot for Me </em>(1965), I demonstrate that Osborne exemplified contradictory sexual politics in the play, and was criticized as homophobic and praised as revolutionary in similarly contradictory original reviews. 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