American Playwriting and the Anti-Political Prejudice: Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Perspectives
- ISBN-10
- 1137415185
- ISBN-13
- 9781137415189
- Category
- Performing Arts
- Pages
- 193
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-11-06
- Publisher
- Springer
- Author
- N. Pressley
Description
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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