Tony Kushner and Angels in America

For class on Monday, we'll be reading Tony Kushner's play, Caroline, or Change. Kushner is one of the foremost playwrights of the twentieth and twenty-first century. His two-part Angels in America revolutionized American theater in the 1990s and helped to introduce the subject of AIDS into the national consciousness. In Angels in America, and in other works such as Hydriotaphia, A Bright Room Called Day, and Homebody/Kabul, Kushner focused on themes dear to his heart--politics and ethics, queer identity, Jewish culture, history, and race in America. In addition to his work as a playwright, Kushner co-authored the screenplay for the Spielberg-produced film, Munich. How does Kushner's approach to the Rosenberg trial compare to Doctorow's? How does his conception of history and the historical imagination pervade Angels and his portrayal of kinship and the AIDs epidemic?

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