American playwriting and the anti-political prejudice: twentieth- and twenty-first-century perspectives
Auteur :
Pressley, N.
Éditeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN :
9781349493722
Date de publication :
6 nov. 2014
Dimensions :
21,6 x 14,0 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Twenty years after Tony Kushner's influential Angels in America seemed to declare a revitalized potency for the popular political play, there is a "No Politics" prejudice undermining US production and writing. This book explores the largely unrecognized cultural patterns that discourage political playwriting on the contemporary American stage.