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American Playwriting and the Anti-Political Prejudice: Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Perspectives (Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History)
Nelson Pressley
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Hardcover. 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. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 16. Weight in Grams: 382.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
Number of Pages
193
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137437051
SKU
V9781137437051
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Ref
99-15
About Nelson Pressley
Nelson Pressley recently received his PhD from the University of Maryland.
Reviews for American Playwriting and the Anti-Political Prejudice: Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Perspectives (Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History)
"American Playwriting and the Anti-Political Prejudice addresses a timely, even urgent question: what has happened to the tradition of socially engaged playwriting in the United States since its two high-water marks in the twentieth century? Something has changed - perhaps irrevocably - in the way our culture makes room for political debate on its stages, in the way playwrights theatricalize ... Read more