ABSTRACT
This is not a paper about the reality of prison and its reflection, subversion, or critique in American and British drama. This is about the fantasies of male incarceration as a byway of the American imagination. Its focus will be an almost forgotten-or to put it more accurately, almost unnoticed-play by a canonical American playwright, and it will investigate some of the implications of acquiescence to, and subversion of, fantasies of male criminality, sexuality, and anality.
