Bibliograph

Negro playwrights in the American theatre, 1925-1959, Doris E. Abramson

Type

Label

Negro playwrights in the American theatre, 1925-1959, Doris E. Abramson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-317) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Negro playwrights in the American theatre, 1925-1959

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

6324

Responsibility statement

Doris E. Abramson

Series statement

A Columbia paperback

Summary

"Between 1925 and 1959 only eighteen plays by fifteen Negro playwrights were produced in the New York professional theatre." Included are Wallace Thurman, Frank Wilson, Rudolph Fisher, Abram Hill, Theodore Browne, Theodore Ward, Richard Wright, William Branch, Alice Childress, Lofton Mitchell, Louis Peterson, and Lorraine Hansberry

Table Of Contents

Prologue -- Beginnings -- The Twenties -- The Thirties -- The Forties -- The Fifties -- Epilogue

Classification