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Essays on Modern American Drama: Williams, Miller, Albee, and Shepard 9781487577803
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Modern American Drama Williams, Miller, Albee, and Shepard The best of modem American drama is represented in the seventeen essays of this collection. They explore the works of four of the most celebrated playwrights of the twentieth century: Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, and Sam Shepard. Among the rich variety of modem American playwrights these four stand above the rest. All four have created works that have received great critical acclaim and produced intense critical controversy. Very different in temperament and style, they bring strikingly different perspectives to their work; and yet all share a fascination with social and family structures, and all demonstrate extraordinary gifts with language. Each playwright is discussed in four or five essays, each essay in tum deals with one or two aspects of one play. Together these essays, originally published in the journal Modern Drama, provide a penetrating study of recent American theatre through the work of four of its very best dramatists. is a professor of English at Victoria College, University of Toronto.
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Modern American Drama
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In a democratic system, we don’t have to allow corporations to run our lives, make us work harder for less, profit from poverty, siphon those profits upwards, and pay no taxes: capitalism is broken, and we need a road map to get ourselves out of this mess. In Episode 21 of the Political Junkie podcast, Public Seminar’s co-executive editor Claire Potter sat down with New School for Social Research political theorist Nancy Fraser to discuss her latest book, Cannibal Capitalism: How Our System Is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It (Verso, 2022), and how movements can expand the socialist vision by weaving critical race, feminist, indigenous, queer, labor, and climate politics together to help us learn how to stand as one to make a better, and survivable, world.
This interview has been edited for clarity and length: you can listen to the original interview as a podcast here.
Claire Potter: Cannibal Capitalism was almost finished before the pandemic started; then, it seems like the pandemic provided a perfect illustration of what the book was about. Can you desc