Canning, Charlotte M. Theatre & the USA. Methuen Drama, 2023. Pp. 112
Canning, Charlotte M. Theatre & the USA. Methuen Drama, 2023. Pp. 112

Summary/Abstract: Edited by Jen Harvie and Dan Rebellato, Methuen Drama’s series of short critical introductions Theatre & has explored the medium’s intersections with a broad spectrum of disciplines and methodologies, cultural objects and institutions, as well as sociopolitical phenomena, aiming to map out “how theatre might illuminate the world and how the world might illuminate the theatre” (vii). In one of the latest instalments in the series, Theatre & the USA, leading scholar Charlotte M. Canning offers a compelling argument about the role of theatre in perpetually imagining, redefining, and interrogating the idea of the American nation as “We, the People.

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