Christopher Bigsby, Viewing America: Twenty-First-Century Television Drama.
In his critical overview of American theatre titled Modern American Drama, 1945-2000, Christopher Bigsby quoted Arthur Miller as saying that “Watching a play is not like lying on a psychiatrist’s couch or sitting alone in front of the television. In the theatre you can sense the reaction of your fe...
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European journal of American studies
2022
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| Yhteenveto: | In his critical overview of American theatre titled Modern American Drama, 1945-2000, Christopher Bigsby quoted Arthur Miller as saying that “Watching a play is not like lying on a psychiatrist’s couch or sitting alone in front of the television. In the theatre you can sense the reaction of your fellow citizens along with your own reaction”—a communality of experience that, along with self-knowledge, “brings a certain relief—the feeling that you are not alone” (119). This, as Bigsby had astu... |
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