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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... union hall . The audience in the auditorium ( plus an occasional " plant " ) takes the role of rank and file union members . There is no fourth wall between them and the stage . The play's action is episodic , taken from the lives of ...
... union practices like those that had caused the AFL - CIO to expel the Teamsters Union two years earlier . In recent years , media praise has gone to union leaders sensitive to the problems of management . Some , like the United Auto ...
... union farm laborers , and historical circumstances are combining to keep the unions out . First , in the San Joaquin Valley , Southeast Asian refugees have taken their place in the century - long line of immigrants whose desire to find ...
Inhalt
The Great DepressionSocial Themes in the Theatrical | 1 |
Labor and the Left | 9 |
OneThird of a Nation | 17 |
Urheberrecht | |
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