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Black Theater: A 20th Century Collection of the Work of Its Best Playwrights

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This collection is designed to span the first 70 years of black playwriting in the 20th century. Patterson's introduction is very short, but he has "tried to amass the best examples of the varying types of plays" black folks have written since the turn of the century. The anthology includes twelve plays: the musical St. Louis Woman by Arna Bontemps and Countee Cullen with lyrics by Johnny Mercer and music by Harold Arlen, Louis Peterson's Take a Giant Step, William Branch's In Splendid Error, Alice Childress's Trouble in Mind, Langston Hughes's Simply Heavenly with music by David Martin, Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, Ossie Davis's Purlie Victorious, Amiri Baraka's Dutchman , James Baldwin's The Amen Corner, Ed Bullins' In the Wine Time, Charles Gordone's No Place to Be Somebody, and Lonne Elder's Ceremonies in Dark Old Men.

Language: English

Pages: 493

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Company

Release: June 01, 1971

ISBN: 0396062547

ISBN 13: 0396062547

Black Theater: A 20th Century Collection of the Work of Its Best Playwrights

5/5 ( ratings)

This collection is designed to span the first 70 years of black playwriting in the 20th century. Patterson's introduction is very short, but he has "tried to amass the best examples of the varying types of plays" black folks have written since the turn of the century. The anthology includes twelve plays: the musical St. Louis Woman by Arna Bontemps and Countee Cullen with lyrics by Johnny Mercer and music by Harold Arlen, Louis Peterson's Take a Giant Step, William Branch's In Splendid Error, Alice Childress's Trouble in Mind, Langston Hughes's Simply Heavenly with music by David Martin, Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, Ossie Davis's Purlie Victorious, Amiri Baraka's Dutchman , James Baldwin's The Amen Corner, Ed Bullins' In the Wine Time, Charles Gordone's No Place to Be Somebody, and Lonne Elder's Ceremonies in Dark Old Men.

Language: English

Pages: 493

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Company

Release: June 01, 1971

ISBN: 0396062547

ISBN 13: 0396062547

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