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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... believe that literature has an immediate , partisan role to play , but I do believe that literature is revolutionary and thus political in a deeper sense . Literature not only sustains a historical experience and continues a tradition ...
... believe in " commu- nism or fascism or any other political patent medicine ! " ( Both Your Houses , III , ii , 175 ) A more radical congressman , Joe Ebner , thinks that Congress's economic excesses will cause the common man to ...
... believe any longer that these institutions are reformable . . . . We believe that this has occurred because the law is no VIETNAM 123.
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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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