Pressley American Playwriting and the Anti-Political Prejudice

Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Perspectives
2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-41518-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 193 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History

Twenty years after Tony Kushner's influential Angels in America seemed to declare a revitalized potency for the popular political play, there is a "No Politics" prejudice undermining US production and writing. This book explores the largely unrecognized cultural patterns that discourage political playwriting on the contemporary American stage.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pressley, N.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. No Politics, Please, We're American 1. "Politics" 2. The Case of Kushner 3. Reception and the Anti-Political Prejudice in America 4. State of the Nation: UK and US 5. American Shenanigans 6. Wendy Wasserstein's Washington 7. Erasing the Playwright Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Nelson Pressley recently received his PhD from the University of Maryland.