Bad Pennies and Dead Presidents : Money in Modern American Drama
ISBN: 9781443842846
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Subjects: Literature;

This study closely analyzes key works by five pivotal playwrights: Sidney Kingsley, Arthur Miller, David Mamet, August Wilson, and Suzan-Lori Parks, in a comparison of the treatment of money in a range of American plays from the Great Depression to the early twenty-first century. Money emerges as a site of anxieties regarding the relation of signs to the real: a OC monstrousOCO substance that seems to breed itself from itself; a dangerous abstraction that claims for itself a OC hardOCO reality, tran...


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