Staging America Twenty-First-Century Dramatists

• Main Author: Bigsby, Christopher (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Bloomsbury Academic 2019
• Subjects: Literary studies: plays & playwrights; Literary Criticism; Drama
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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.