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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Formato: | Libro electrónico |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London, England :
Bloomsbury Academic
2019
[2020] |
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009710706506719 |
Sumario: | 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 Allegría 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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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vi, 239 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-233) and index. |
ISBN: | 9781350127562 9781350127555 |