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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... final scene , Hazen must face a war amputee son ( Montgomery Clift on the stage , Douglas Dick in the movies ) who leaves no doubt as to his opinion of his parents ' vacillation : " I am ashamed of both of you and that's the truth . I ...
... final level of interrogation , Rubashov questions himself and discovers that he is the creator of a logic so perfect it cannot admit humanity . In a series of flashbacks , he reexamines his past decisions and finds them to be the ...
... final curtain , the projection of the onrushing locomotive over Bobby's body makes us realize it is the train that severed his leg - the price claimed by a civilization that runs on linear time and has no pity for those who cannot ...
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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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