American Playwriting and the Anti-Political Prejudice [electronic resource] : Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Perspectives /
Pressley, N.author.
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.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: No Politics, Please, We're American; 1.  "Politics"; 2.  The Case of Kushner; 3.  Reception and the Anti-Political Prejudice in America; 4.  State of the Nation: The United Kingdom and the United States; 5.  American Shenanigans; 6.  Wendy Wasserstein's Washington; 7.  Erasing the Playwright; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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