American Playwriting and the Anti-Political Prejudice - Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Perspectives

Twenty years after Tony Kushner's influential Angels in America seemed to declare a revitalized potency for the popular political play, there is a "No Politics" prejudice undermining US production and writing. This book explores the largely unrecognized cultural patterns that discourage political playwriting on the contemporary American stage.

Nelson Pressley recently received his PhD from the University of Maryland.