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Dramatists and the Bomb : American and British Playwrights Confront the Nuclear Age, 1945-1964 (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies)
Dramatists and the Bomb American and British Playwrights Confront the Nuclear Age 19451964 - Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies Author:Charles A. Carpenter While the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki secured an American victory in the Pacific and hastened the end of World War II, it also ushered in an era of fear. The first of its kind, this study shows how English-speaking dramatists, both major and minor, reacted to the stunning events of the Nuclear Age up to 1964; the attack on Japan, the evolu... more »tion of the Cold War, the development of more and more deadly and refined atomic weapons, the emphasis on private fallout shelters, and strategic crises such as those in Suez, Berlin, and Cuba. Moving from American to British responses in the atomic and then the early thermonuclear era, the book describes more than 25 plays that deal with these events and quotes a variety of playwrights' reflections on them.« less