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Plays of Impasse: Contemporary Drama Set in Confining Institutions
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Plays of Impasse: Contemporary Drama Set in Confining Institutions
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Carol Rosen
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| Series | Princeton Legacy Library |
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:356 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 152 |
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| Category/Genre | Literary studies - plays and playwrights |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780691613260
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| Audience | | Tertiary Education (US: College) | | Professional & Vocational | |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Princeton University Press
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| Imprint |
Princeton University Press
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| Publication Date |
21 March 2017 |
| Publication Country |
United States
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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
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