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Plays of Impasse: Contemporary Drama Set in Confining Institutions
(Hardback)
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Full Title:
Plays of Impasse: Contemporary Drama Set in Confining Institutions
Contributors:
By (Author) Carol Rosen
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
30th May 2017
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Hardback
Number of Pages:
356
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
Weight:
652g
Description
This work probes the structure and significance of the increasingly numerous and highly visible plays set in contemporary society's dead ends the hospitals, insane asylums, prisons, and military training camps so aptly described by Erving Goffman as total institutions." Carol Rosen shows how the setting in these plays tends to engulf and then to ex
