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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... production of the fledgling Group Theatre and the first play of its kind to be presented on Broadway , it closed after nine performances . The structure and protagonists ( Adam Coaldigger and The Girl ) of 1931- have obvious agitprop ...
... production of Waiting for Lefty in 1935. Sinclair Lewis's novel It Can't Happen Here , as dramatized by the author and John Moffit in 1936 , provided an occasion for the Federal Theatre's most heroic production effort - the opening of ...
... productions over a four - year period at a cost of $ 7 million . The first , Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing ... production was enough to heavily erode the theatre audience for the play , which closed at a loss of $ 165,000 , but ...
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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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