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Black theater, U.S.A.;, forty-five plays by Black Americans, 1847-1974., James V. Hatch, editor. Ted Shine, consultant

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Black theater, U.S.A.;, forty-five plays by Black Americans, 1847-1974., James V. Hatch, editor. Ted Shine, consultant

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 875-880)

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Black theater, U.S.A.;

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bibliography

Oclc number

708491

Responsibility statement

James V. Hatch, editor. Ted Shine, consultant

Sub title

forty-five plays by Black Americans, 1847-1974.

Summary

Various themes and styles are represented in this anthology of comic and tragic works by Black American playwrights

Table Of Contents

The black doctor / Ira Aldridge -- The brown overcoat / Victor Sejour -- The escape; or A leap for freedom / William Wells Brown -- Caleb the degenerate / Joseph S. Cotter Sr. -- Appearances / Garland Anderson -- Rachel / Angelina Grimke -- Mine eyes have seen / Alice Dunbar Nelson -- They that sit in darkness / Mary Burrill -- For unborn children / Myrtle Smith Livingston -- The church fight / Ruth Gaines-Shelton -- Undertow / Eulalie Spence -- The purple flower / Marita Bonner -- A Sunday morning in the South / Georgia Douglas Johnson -- Balo / Jean Toomer -- 'Cruiter / John Matheus -- The Idle Head / Willis Richardson -- Bad men / Randolph Edmonds -- Job Hunters / H.F.V. Edward -- Don't You Want to be Free? / Langston Hughes -- Big White Fog / Theodore Ward -- Divine Comedy / Owen Dodson -- Graven Images / May Miller -- Natural Man / Theodore Browne -- Flight of the Natives / Willis Richardson -- Native Son / Richard Wright and Paul Green -- District of Columbia / Stanley Richards -- Walk Hard / Abram Hill -- The Tumult and the Shouting / Thomas Pawley -- The Amen Corner / James Baldwin -- Take a Giant Step /Louis Peterson -- In Splendid Error / William Branch -- Star of the Morning / Loften Mitchell -- Limitations of Life / Langston Hughes -- Dry August (Mrs. Patterson) / Charles Sebree -- Fly Blackbird / Bernard Jackson and James V. Hatch -- Day of Absence / Douglas Turner Ward -- The Drinking Gourd / Lorraine Hansberry -- Wine in the Wilderness / Alice Childress -- The Owl Answers /Adrienne Kennedy -- Job Security / Martie Charles -- Little Ham / Langston Hughes -- The Slave / Imamu Amiri Baraka -- Goin' a Buffalo / Ed Bullins -- Herbert III / Ted Shine -- Blk Love Song #1 / Val Ferdinand

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