Plays of Impasse Contemporary Drama Set in Confining Institutions |
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| Author:
| Rosen, Carol |
| Series title: | Princeton Legacy Library |
| ISBN: | 978-0-691-62882-0 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2017 |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $147.00 |
Book Description:
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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
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