From the earliest Puritan displays of piety and rectitude to the present-day epidemic of staged school massacres, the history of America has been characterized by a dual impulse: to cast public event and character as high drama, and to dismiss theater and theatricalization as un-American, even evil. This book rethinks American history as theater, and theater as the ethos and substance of American life, ironically repudiated at every turn by the culture it produces.
Agitated States : Performance in the American Theater of Cruelty (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance),Anthony James Kubiak,University of Michigan Press,0472068113,General,Performing Arts,Performing Arts/Dance,Political aspects,Popular Culture - General,Theater,Theater - General,Theater - History & Criticism,Theater and society,United States - General,Social Science / Popular Culture
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