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"a critical resource for those interested in a vitally important aspect of the theater of the late 20th century"
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This study explores how masculinity is presented in the works of such leading male playwrights as Shepard, Miller, O'Neill, Mamet, Rabe, and August Wilson. It becomes apparent that male playwrights return often to the issues of troubled manhood, usually masked in other issues such as business or family.
Staging Masculinity: Male Identity in Contemporary American Drama FROM THE PUBLISHER
This study explores how masculinity is presented in the works of such leading male playwrights as Shepard, Miller, O'Neill, Mamet, Rabe, and August Wilson. It becomes apparent that male playwrights return often to the issues of troubled manhood, usually masked in other issues such as business or family.
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An examination of four contemporary male playwrights detailing issues
of manhood as they appear in the plays from a postmodern, gendered
theoretical perspective. McDonough (Eastern Illinois U.) chooses
Arthur Miller, Sam Shepard, Eugene O'Neill, David Mamet, and August
Wilson as the premiere writers whose male characters are often
perceived as "universal," suggesting that the critical crux lies in
such assumptions i.e. men's empowerment to speak for a culture makes
them invisible to their own struggles with the overwhelming gender
conflicts and dynamics that inform these characters.
Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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