This page serves as a starting point for doing dramaturgical research about Angels in America by Tony Kushner.
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Worlds of the Play Look for information about the political, social, historical, and economic environment of the play. |
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American Politics |
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Apocalypse / Millenarianism |
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Cold War |
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Ethnic Identity |
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Homosexuality |
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Identity politics |
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Jewish Americans |
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Mormonism |
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| Queer theory |
| Sexual Identity |
| Spirituality |
| Symbolism of Angels |
Books 
| Contemporary American Dramatists / REF PS 352.65
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Reference; book stacks are located on the main floor, across from the I-Commons
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The Author and His/Her Worlds Look for playwright's influences, life experiences, dominant themes, social, political, philosophical, and moral attitudes of the day. |
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Books
| Cambridge Guide to the Theatre / REF PN2035 C27
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| Contemporary American Dramatists / REF PS352 .C65 1994 | ||
| Contemporary Authors / REF Z1224 C6
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| Contemporary Authors New Revision Series / REF Z1224 .C6 1981
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| Contemporary Dramatists / REF PR106 V5
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| Contemporary Literary Criticism / REF PN771 .C59
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| Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century / REF PN771 .E5 | ||
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Databases 
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Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated, 1984 to date, with monthly updates. Includes biographical subjects from antiquity to the present.
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Web Sites
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University of Texas site - See section "Tony Kushner -- Bios, interviews" |
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Drama Criticism, Reviews & Production History Look for original and subsequent productions, analysis of the play's contributions to literature |
Books
| Contemporary American Dramatists / REF PS352 .C65 1994
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| Contemporary Literary Criticism/REF PN771 .C59
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| New York Theatre Critic's Reviews / REF PN2000 N76
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| University of Texas site - see section "Angels in America - Reviews" |
| Images & Sound Look for video clips, music, photographs, and images (representational, metaphorical, and abstract). |
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Books
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Illustration Index/ N7525.V3 Reference
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SIMON Search Tips:
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| Use sounds as subject heading |
| Limit keyword search to material type: film & video, music |
| recording, non-music recordings |
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Art Index, Includes references to images found in periodicals, yearbooks, museum bulletins | ||
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Web Sites
Use a search engine like Google or Yahoo
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Sources, Analogues & Influences Look for those materials that helped provide a basis for the play, that influenced its development, or that share similar attributes, qualities, or characteristics |
Bechtel, Roger. "'A
Kind of Painful Progress': The Benjaminian Dialectics of Angels in
America." Journal of Dramatic Theory and
Criticism, 16:1 (2001
Fall), pp. 99-121
relationship to Walter Benjamin; Geschichtsphilosophische
Thesen"; "Theses on the Philosophy of History"
Borreca, Art. "'Dramaturging' the Dialectic:
Brecht, Benjamin, and Declan Donnellan's Production of Angels in America,"
pp. 245-60. Geis, Deborah R. (ed.); and Kruger, Steven F. (ed.). Approaching the
Millennium: Essays on Angels in America.
sources in Bertolt Brecht; Walter Benjamin
Fisher, James. "'Troubling the Waters': Visions of the Apocalypse in Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth and Kushner's Angels in America." pp. 391-407. Blank, Martin (ed. and introd.); Brunauer, Dalma Hunyadi (ed.) and Izzo, David Garrett (ed.). Thornton Wilder: New Essays.
Knabe, Susan. "Viral
Migrations: Fairy Tales of Family and Nation, Death and Disease." Foundation:
The International Review of Science Fiction, 31:86 (2002 Autumn), pp. 76-85.
compared to Geoff
Ryman; Was; Peg Kerr; The Wild
Swans
Miller, James. "Heavenquake: Queer Analogies
in Kushner's America," pp. 56-77. Geis, Deborah R. (ed.); and Kruger,
Steven F. (ed.). Approaching the Millennium: Essays on Angels in
America.
influence of Nietzsche on Kushner
Montgomery, Benilde. "Angels in America as Medieval Mystery." Modern Drama, 41:4 (1998 Winter), pp. 596-606.
Reinelt, Janelle. "Notes on Angels in
America as American Epic Theater," pp. 234-44. Geis, Deborah R. (ed.); and
Kruger, Steven F. (ed.). Approaching the Millennium: Essays on Angels in
America.
sources in Bertolt Brecht
Sordi, Michele. "Angels,
Critics, and the Rhetoric of AIDS in America." pp. 186-96. Cain,
William E. (ed.). Reconceptualizing American Literary/Cultural Studies:
Rhetoric, History, and Politics in the Humanities. Wellesley Studies in Critical
Theory, Literary History, and Culture
theories of Steven Mailloux
See also sources in The Author & His/Her Worlds, Drama Criticism
| Look for the words "sources" or "influence" |
