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Angels in America - Tony Kushner - 1992
Introduction
Tony Kushner's two-part play, Angels in America (1992), has been lauded by critics and audiences alike as one of the most important American...
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Angels in America
by Tony Kushner
Born in 1956 in New York City, Tony Kushner moved with his family to Louisiana shortly thereafter. Kushner's mother was an actress, and he credits her performances...
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Tony Kushner burst onto the international stage in the early 1990s with the critical success of his two-part Angels in America. Already established as a director, adaptor, and playwright working in r...
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In the essay below, Rogoff sardonically traces the evolution of Angels in America, maintaining that the changes made in the course of its various stagings lessened the work.
As one who lives a life ra...
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In this essay, Posnock compares the historical Roy Cohn to Kushner's depiction of him in Angels in America.
"I'm immortal Ethel," the dying Roy Cohn tells the visiting spec...
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In the following, McNulty analyzes Angels in America in terms of Walter Benjamin's theories of history, finding that Perestroika abandons Benjamin's view of history as continuous catastr...
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In the excerpt below, McDonough investigates Kushner's examination of male identity in Angels in America, arguing that the play critiques "social assumptions regarding the efficacy of tr...
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In this review, Winer asserts that Angels in America is "a fierce and wonderful play—uncompromising and compassionate, unflinchingly partisan and intensely well-informed, as intimate and...
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In the review below, Brustein, despite some reservations, judges Angels in America "the authoritative achievement of a radical dramatic artist with a fresh, clear voice."
Tony Kushner&#x...
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In the following essay, Norden discusses the ideological implications of Jewish gay identity in Angels in America.
The good-looking young men cruising the aisles were putting on a show of their own. &...
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In the following essay, Smith examines the conflict between apocalyptic and progressive impulses in Angels in America.
I. Apocalypse Descending
Outside of Chekhov, I can think of no playwright whose c...
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In the following essay, Ogden examines Kushner's representation of sexual identity in Angels in America in terms of the intersection of medical and political discourse around the AIDS epidemic....
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In the following essay, Bechtel examines the underlying political ideology of Angels in America in terms of the leftist cultural theories of Walter Benjamin. Bechtel asserts that Kushner's play...
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In the following essay, Savran examines the ideological underpinnings of Angels in America in terms of the cultural, historical, and political context in which it was produced.
Critics, pundits, and p...
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In the following essay, Meisner examines Kushner's representations of women and femininity in Angels in America.
We pay a high price for the maintenance of the myth of the individual.
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In the following essay, Aiello compares Angels in America with Aristotle's Poetics, claiming that Kushner's play vitiates the form of tragedy.
It seems to be a contentious position throu...
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In the following essay, Felman examines the parallels between Jewish and gay identity as presented in Angels in America. Felman asserts that Kushner's play is ultimately about “Jewish ma...
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In the following essay, Fisher compares the representations of homosexuality in Kushner's Angels in America and the plays of Tennessee Williams.
Who, if I were to cry out, would hear me among t...
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In the following essay, Quinn argues that the concept of law is central to both the national and spiritual themes running through Angels in America. Quinn asserts that, in Kushner's play, the l...
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In the following essay, McNulty examines Kushner's representation of the AIDS epidemic in Angels in America in the context of American politics and history. McNulty asserts that while Millenniu...
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In the following essay, Kruger examines the intersection of individual identity and collective history in Angels in America.
The titles and subtitles of Tony Kushner's Angels in America emphasi...
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In the following essay, Montgomery examines the similarities between Kushner's Angels in America and the tradition of medieval religious mystery plays.
Although highly praised in the popular pr...
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In the following essay, Frantzen examines the representation of Anglo-Saxon identity in Angels in America in terms of Kushner's sexual identity politics.
Rome, not Northumbria, is the center of...
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Teaching Angels in America
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Angels in America - Tony Kushner - 1992
Angels in America
Tony Kushner
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