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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... capitalism . Indeed , the physical manifestation of capitalism is the sole link to all the play's episodes : Harry Fatt , the union boss , whose porcine charac- teristics are used to link capitalism , organized crime , and anticommu ...
... capitalism's refusal to pay him a living wage is killing his kids and his marriage : Joe : I'm not so dumb as you think . But you are talking like a Red . Edna : I don't know what that means . But when a man knocks you down you get up ...
... capitalism , whose warfare is seen as class - based , with its dividends earned by those who work and fight , and paid to those for whom war is good business . The plays see nationalism as a carrier for capitalism , made palatable by ...
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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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