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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... percent of America's total wealth and 49 percent of its corporate wealth . In 1931 , 65 percent of American industry was in the hands of 600 corporations.8 This imbalance was to prove a major factor in the economy's downward spiral ...
... percent area which constitutes its slums . Fifty percent of all Richmond , Virginia's , juvenile delinquency occurs in the 18 percent area of its city slums . In Cleveland , the figures are 47 percent in 17 percent , and in Philadelphia ...
... percent saw the draft and Vietnam as " the problems young men your age worry about most , " only 8 percent of the " Vietnam generation " would actually serve there . Sixty percent of those who did not see combat took active steps to ...
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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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