Staging America Twenty-First-Century Dramatists
A new generation of playwrights, whose careers began in this century, has emerged, and done so when American theatre and society was changing. Capturing the cultural shifts of 21st-century America, Staging America explores the lives and works of 8 award-winning playwrights – including Ayad Akhtar, S...
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Bloomsbury Academic
2019
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| Collection: | OAPEN - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | A new generation of playwrights, whose careers began in this century, has emerged, and done so when American theatre and society was changing. Capturing the cultural shifts of 21st-century America, Staging America explores the lives and works of 8 award-winning playwrights – including Ayad Akhtar, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Young Jean Lee and Quiara Alllegría Hudes – whose backgrounds reflect the social, religious, sexual and national diversity of American society. Each chapter is devoted to a single playwright and provides an overview of their career, a description and critical evaluation of their work, as well as a sense of their reception. |
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| Item Description: | Creative Commons Licence (cc), by-nc-nd |
| ISBN: | 9781350127548 9781350127555 9781350127562 |