TY - BOOK AU - Bigsby,Christopher TI - Staging America: Twenty-First-Century Dramatists SN - 9781350127548 PB - Bloomsbury Academic KW - Literary Criticism / Drama KW - bisacsh KW - Literature KW - History and criticism KW - Electronic books N1 - Access copy available to the general public N2 - 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 UR - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/b8692ff9-a870-43bc-8785-126d02c20f92 ER -