Messiah of the New Technique

Download or read book Messiah of the New Technique written by and published by SIU Press. This book was released on with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Messiah of the New Technique is a critical and political biography and a cultural and social history that focuses on Lawson's career in the theatre. Using a materialist methodology, Jonathan L. Chambers emphasizes the evolution and interplay of the playwright's artistic vision and political ideology, considering his art as both a documentation of this evolution and a product of the socio-political and cultural matrix in which he was immersed.