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Karen (Hrsg.) Malpede

Acts of War: Iraq and Afghanistan in Seven Plays

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As Karen Malpede points out in her introduction to Acts of War, tragedy arose as a complement to, perhaps also as an antidote to, war. The greatest of the early playwrights wrote from experience--Aeschylus and Sophocles were generals in the Athenian army, and Euripides was a combat veteran. Electronic media reports war instantly, but the stage provides an unrivaled venue for facing the horror of armed conflict on a human scale.This timely anthology of plays by American and British writers bears witness to the realities of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for combatants and civilians alike and asks what it means to be a citizen in a democracy… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Messina, Michael (Hrsg.) / Shuman, Bob (Hrsg.)
  • ISBN: 978-0-8101-2732-6
  • EAN: 9780810127326
  • Produktnummer: 7923274
  • Verlag: Northwestern Univ Pr
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
  • Seitenangabe: 366 S.
  • Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.8 cm 757 g
  • Gewicht: 757

Über den Autor


Karen Malpede is author of fifteen produced plays, short stories, and essays on theater and human rights, and a collection of early plays, A Monster Has Stolen the Sun and Other Plays (1987). She is cofounder, with George Bartenieff and the late Lee Nagrin, of Theater Three Collaborative. She has taught Greek and contemporary drama and writing at Smith College, New York University, and the CUNY Graduate Center's Continuing Education Program.Michael Messina was the publisher at Applause Theatre & Cinema Books and Limelight Editions (Hal Leonard Corporation).He has also worked for Da Capo Press, Cooper Square Press, and the American Booksellers Association.Bob Shuman is the owner of Marit Literary Agency in New York, and is an editor, a playwright, a college professor, an author, and a composer. He is coeditor of Duo!: The Best Scenes for Two for the 21st Century (2009). A fellow of the Lark Theatre Company, he is the recipient of Hunter College's Irv Zarkower Award for excellence in playwriting. Visit Shuman's theater website, Stage Voices, at www.stagevoices.com.

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