Staging America
Bigsby, Christopher
Staging America Twenty-First-Century Dramatists / Christopher Bigsby. - 1 online resource (1 p.)
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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 AlllegrÃa 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.
9781350127548
Literary Criticism / Drama
Literature--History and criticism
Electronic books.
Staging America Twenty-First-Century Dramatists / Christopher Bigsby. - 1 online resource (1 p.)
Access copy available to the general public.
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 AlllegrÃa 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.
9781350127548
Literary Criticism / Drama
Literature--History and criticism
Electronic books.