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Stanley Kushner's Angles In America

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The most praised of all Kushner’s plays, Angles in America, is a Pulitzer-winning play that examines the labels attached to the gay community especially during the Reagan administration years (Stanciu 8). This monumental and revolutionary play, divided into two parts, Millennium Approaches and Perestroika, offers a unique insight into the lives of several characters that lived in the conservative 1980s USA. Rich with historical, religious and literary allusions, the play invites the reader to reconsider the events of a relatively familiar political landscape and see it in “a new, all-transfiguring, apocalyptic and messianic light” (Corby 2010: 24). The difficult times which play sets to describe are foreshadowed by Stanley Kunitz’s epigraph
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