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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... character encounters the symbolic manifestation of a system in a single episode . Longer episodic dramas follow one of two forms . In the first , a central character undertakes a sort of picaresque pilgrimage in which he encounters ...
... Character The problem of the political dramatist has been to make systems and values theatrically moving . A drama's effectiveness depends upon the audience's identification with a character whose subsequent triumph or defeat becomes ...
... character of its people - their ability to find answers to their problems individually or by mutual cooperation without government interference or coercion . Nine years later , as the Depression deepened , Hoover still believed in " ...
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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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