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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... workers take charge : " Doctors don't run medicine in this country . The men who know their jobs don't run anything here . The honest workers were sold out . . . in '76 . The Constitution's for rich men then and now . " ( Waiting for ...
... workers in 1893 , the National Guard slaughtering Greek miners at Ludlow , Colorado , in 1914 , and assembly line workers outlasting Ford Motor Company goons in 1941. Most of all , we see in our mind's eye the Great Depression - a ...
... workers , with the result that the average hourly wages of UFWOC workers had more than tripled by 1983.19 However , in the many areas of California's agribusiness industry which remain unorganized , workers wages average half 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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