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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... means of propaganda in the world . . . because it works by exhibiting examples of personal conduct made intelligible and moving to crowds of unobservant , unreflecting people to whom real life means nothing.2 -George Bernard Shaw As its ...
... means becoming the end , too guilty to see that the Devil's face becomes our own when we " quail to bring men out of ignorance . " ( The Crucible , III , 120 ) But whatever Oppenheimer's shortcomings may be , he is not unaware of the ...
... means I am going to die . " 77 Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart , performed at New York's Public Theater , may be the most overtly political of the plays . Rolling Stone's David Black says the play " is to AIDS what Arthur Miller's The ...
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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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