From Class to Caste in American Drama: Political and Social Themes Since the 1930sBloomsbury Academic, 21.03.1991 - 301 Seiten The American political theatre from the Depression to the present is the subject of this unique new study. Richard Scharine examines issues that shaped the development of the United States during this period, as they were portrayed in selected American plays first produced between 1933 and 1985. Drawing upon fifty years of social, political, and theatrical history, he provides an understanding of the events, ideas, and emotional matrices out of which the plays were born, as well as offering an analysis of human documents that are a reflection of the political events of a time. Along the way, Scharine illustrates how the dramatic representation of American inequalities has evolved in recent decades from the concerns of class to the way class is predetermined by caste. |
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... Mighty Gents “ The Last Street Play . " The setting is the Newark ghetto in approximately 1975 . The " Mighty Gents " are a street gang which reached the zenith of its power in the early sixties . Its surviving members - Tiny , Lucky ...
... Mighty Gents , i , 7 ) Rita also associates the Mighty Gents with love , which she defines as never separating sex from respect : " We were special then and every day was filled with sunshine and light . " ( The Mighty Gents , v , 20 ) ...
... Mighty Gents , viii , 36 ) On one level it is ironic . Braxton , who saw his job as keeping " the cavemen " at one another's throats , is hit by his own kind . On another level , that Braxton's assessment of their situation is ...
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The Great DepressionSocial Themes in the Theatrical | 1 |
Labor and the Left | 9 |
OneThird of a Nation | 17 |
Urheberrecht | |
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