Failure, Fascism, and Teachers in American Theatre: Pedagogy of the Oppressors

by James F. Wilson

This timely and accessible book explores the shifting representations of schoolteachers and professors in plays and performances primarily from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in the United States. Examining various historical and recurring types, such as spinsters, schoolmarms, presumed sexual deviants, radicals and communists, fascists, and emasculated men teachers, Wilson shines the spotlight on both well-known and nearly-forgotten...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031340124
• ISBN13: 9783031340123
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"