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...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomsbury Academic 2019
Subjects:
Online Access:Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication
Open Access: DOAB, download the publication
Open Access: DOAB, download the publication
LEADER 02127namaa2200385uu 4500
001 doab37656
003 oapen
005 20210210
006 m o d
007 cr|mn|---annan
008 210210s2019 xx |||||o ||| 0|eng d
020 |a 9781350127548 
020 |a 9781350127548 
040 |a oapen  |c oapen 
041 0 |a eng 
042 |a dc 
072 7 |a DSG  |2 bicssc 
720 1 |a Bigsby, Christopher  |4 aut 
245 0 0 |a Staging America  |b Twenty-First-Century Dramatists 
260 |b Bloomsbury Academic  |c 2019 
300 |a 1 online resource 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a computer  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a online resource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
506 0 |a Open Access  |f Unrestricted online access  |2 star 
520 |a 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. 
540 |a Creative Commons  |f https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode  |2 cc  |u https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode 
546 |a English 
650 7 |a Literary studies: plays & playwrights  |2 bicssc 
653 |a Drama 
653 |a Literary Criticism 
793 0 |a DOAB Library. 
856 4 0 |u https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/37656  |7 0  |z Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication 
856 4 0 |u https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/45794/1/external_content.pdf  |7 0  |z Open Access: DOAB, download the publication 
856 4 0 |u https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/45794/11/9781350127555.epub  |7 0  |z Open Access: DOAB, download the publication