TY - BOOK AU - Bigsby,Christopher TI - Staging America PY - 2019/// PB - Bloomsbury Academic KW - Drama KW - Literary Criticism N2 - 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 UR - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yKIrdCPDAG_9c22mwoOIO2DOhtj65Wqa/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=106555315294820607512&rtpof=true&sd=true ER -