American Playwriting and the Anti-Political Prejudice

Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Perspectives

N. Pressley (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

193 Seiten

2014 | 1st ed. 2014
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-49372-2 (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

Erscheinungsdatum	12.08.2016
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
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
Schlagworte	American Drama • political plays • state of the nation plays
ISBN-10	1-349-49372-4 / 1349493724
ISBN-13	978-1-349-49372-2 / 9781349493722
Zustand	Neuware