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Documentary Trial Plays in Contemporary American Theater /

This book chronicles the development of the documentary trial play in late-twentieth-century American theater. From the Chicago Conspiracy Trial and the O.J. Simpson trial to the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill congressional hearings, legal and legislative proceedings in the latter part of the twentieth-...

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Autor principal: O'Connor, Jacqueline
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction : Legal representation
  • Judicial identification : The trial of the Catonsville Nine and The Chicago conspiracy trial
  • National investigation : Inquest and Are you now or have you ever been
  • Ideological confrontation : Execution of justice and Greensboro (a requiem)
  • Individual interrogation, communal resolution : unquestioned integrity : The Hill/Thomas hearings, Gross indecency : the three trials of Oscar Wilde, and The Laramie project
  • Conclusion : Cultural legislation.