Three Plays : The Political Theater of Howard Zinn: Emma, Marx in Soho, Daughter of Venus - Howard Zinn

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Three Plays

The Political Theater of Howard Zinn: Emma, Marx in Soho, Daughter of Venus

By: Howard Zinn

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Paperback | 1 March 2010

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Best-selling historian Howard Zinn is celebrated for looking at history not from the perspective of those in power but rather from the viewpoint of those who speak truth to power. In his plays "Marx in Soho, Emma, "and "Daughter of Venus, "Zinn applies that principle with enormous zest and great doses of drama and humor. A much-admired public intellectual himself, Zinn here brings to life the radicals Emma Goldman and Karl Marx, and in the previously unpublished "Daughter of Venus "explores ethical questions of political resistance.

Marx in Soho "is a witty introduction to Karl Marx's life and thought disguised as a romp. Marx is sent, via a bureaucratic mix-up in the afterlife, to Soho in New York, rather than to his familiar London neighborhood, for the hard-won opportunity to clear his name. In "Emma, "the feminist, anarchist, and free-spirited thinker Emma Goldman lives life to the fullest in a play that reveals her agonized internal struggle between sexual freedom and political rebellion. "Daughter of Venus "is a family drama, an intellectual and personal duel between a biophysicist and his rebel daughter.

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The first act of 'Emma, ' Howard Zinn's play about Emma Goldman, is a small miracle. Here is a drama that holds down the heroics, polemics and didacticism to which works about heroes and heroines are prone. True, Emma is idealized; she is loving, honest, selfless, daring, but she is also human and believable.--Walter Goodman, New York Times

[Marx in Soho is] an imaginative critique of our society's hypocrisies and injustices, and an entertaining, vivid portrait of Karl Marx as a voice of humanitarian justice - which is perhaps the best way to remember him.--Kirkus Reviews

[Daughter of Venus's] central concerns - personal and social ethics; the balance of obligations to ourselves, our families, and our fellow citizens; the uses and abuses of political and scientific power - remain as timely as ever. . . . Zinn not only displays a fluid and passionately committed style but also is attempting to do something interesting with it: to interweave a story of familial tensions and national politics, and in doing so to remind us that the way we live our lives on the small, local, day-to-day scale of family life can have repercussions and implications for the life of the nation at large.--Louise Kennedy, Boston Globe

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