American Playwriting and the Anti-Political Prejudice

Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Perspectives

N. Pressley (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

193 Seiten

2014
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-43705-1 (ISBN)

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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.

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

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.11.2014
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
Zusatzinfo	IX, 193 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-137-43705-7 / 1137437057
ISBN-13	978-1-137-43705-1 / 9781137437051
Zustand	Neuware