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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... individual motivations rather than social causes . Playwright David Edgar sees this as the predicament in writing political plays for TV's large audience : " The countless other drama serials , series , and plays that are part of a ...
... individual than with the individual psychology . Whatever Eugene O'Neill may have had to say about the social position of Afro - Americans ( The Emperor Jones , All God's Chillun Got Wings ) , workers ( The Hairy Ape ) , or women ...
... individual whose fate is seen in context as predetermined by social assumptions rather than personal abilities . Often , the aim is to glorify qualities in the minority group which are absent in , denigrated by , or superior to those of ...
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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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