American Playwriting and the Anti-Political Prejudice
Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Perspectives
Authors: Pressley, N.
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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Nelson Pressley recently received his PhD from the University of Maryland.
- Reviews
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"American Playwriting and the Anti-Political Prejudice addresses a timely, even urgent question: what has happened to the tradition of socially engaged playwriting in the United States since its two high-water marks in the twentieth century? Something has changed - perhaps irrevocably - in the way our culture makes room for political debate on its stages, in the way playwrights theatricalize political life, embody committed thought and action, and measure the space between utopian ideals and harsher realities." - Marc Robinson, author of The American Play: 1787-2000
- Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Introduction: No Politics, Please, We’re American
Pages 1-4
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“Politics”
Pages 5-23
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The Case of Kushner
Pages 25-35
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Reception and the Anti-Political Prejudice in America
Pages 37-70
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State of the Nation: The United Kingdom and the United States
Pages 71-94
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- American Playwriting and the Anti-Political Prejudice
- Book Subtitle
- Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Perspectives
- Authors
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- N. Pressley
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
- Copyright
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Copyright Holder
- Nelson Pressley
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-41518-9
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137415189
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-43705-1
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-49372-2
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- IX, 193
- Topics
