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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UPC:
9781137437051
Maximum Purchase:
3 units
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication Date:
2014-11-06
Release Date:
2014-11-06
Author:
N. Pressley
Language:
english
Edition:
2014
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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.