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A Study On The Treatment Of Negro Characters And Themes In Six Plays By Five American Contemporary Playwrights
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Book Synopsis A Study on the Treatment of Negro Characters and Themes in Six Plays by Five American Contemporary Playwrights by : Thelma Avant Dinwiddie
Download or read book A Study on the Treatment of Negro Characters and Themes in Six Plays by Five American Contemporary Playwrights written by Thelma Avant Dinwiddie and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Directory of Members by : American Educational Theatre Association
Download or read book Directory of Members written by American Educational Theatre Association and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Study of Certain Negro Playwrights by : Norma Esther Hull
Download or read book A Study of Certain Negro Playwrights written by Norma Esther Hull and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The African American Theatrical Body by : Soyica Diggs Colbert
Download or read book The African American Theatrical Body written by Soyica Diggs Colbert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting an innovative approach to performance studies and literary history, Soyica Colbert argues for the centrality of black performance traditions to African American literature, including preaching, dancing, blues and gospel, and theatre itself, showing how these performance traditions create the 'performative ground' of African American literary texts. Across a century of literary production using the physical space of the theatre and the discursive space of the page, W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, August Wilson and others deploy performances to re-situate black people in time and space. The study examines African American plays past and present, including A Raisin in the Sun, Blues for Mister Charlie and Joe Turner's Come and Gone, demonstrating how African American dramatists stage black performances in their plays as acts of recuperation and restoration, creating sites that have the potential to repair the damage caused by slavery and its aftermath.
Book Synopsis The Theme is Blackness by : Ed Bullins
Download or read book The Theme is Blackness written by Ed Bullins and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1973 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen plays written between 1965 and 1970 are presented with the playwright's comments on the modern role of the Black theater.
Book Synopsis Willis Richardson, Forgotten Pioneer of African-American Drama by : Christine R. Gray
Download or read book Willis Richardson, Forgotten Pioneer of African-American Drama written by Christine R. Gray and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1999-12-30 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1920s and 1930s, Willis Richardson (1889-1977) was highly respected as a leading African-American playwright and drama anthologist. His plays were performed by numerous black high school, college, and university drama groups and by theater companies in Chicago, New York, Washington D.C., Cleveland, Baltimore, and Atlanta. With the opening of The Chip Woman's Fortune (1923), he became the first African American to have a play produced on Broadway. Several of his 46 plays were published in assorted magazines, and in his essays, he urged black Americans to seek their dramatic material in their own lives and circumstances. In addition, he edited three anthologies of plays by African-Americans. But between 1940 and his death in 1977, Richardson came to realize that his plays were period pieces and that they no longer reflected the problems and situations of African-Americans. In the years before his death, he attempted vigorously yet unsuccessfully to preserve several of his plays through publication, if not production. But the man who has been called the father of African-American drama and who was considered the hope and promise of African-American drama died in obscurity. Richardson has even been neglected by the scholarly community. This critical biography, the first extensive consideration of his life and work, firmly reestablishes his pioneering role in American theater. The book begins with a detailed chronology, followed by a thoughtful biographical essay. The volume then examines the nature of African-American drama in the 1920s, the period during which Richardson was most productive, and it analyzes his approach to drama as a means of educating African-American audiences. It then explores the African-American community as the central theme in Richardson's plays, for Richardson typically looks at the consequences of refusals by blacks to help one another. The work additionally considers Richardson's history plays, his anthologies, his dramas intended for black children, and his essays. A concluding chapter summarizes his lasting influence; the book closes with a listing of his plays and an extensive bibliography.
Book Synopsis Contemporary Black American Playwrights and Their Plays by : Bernard L. Peterson Jr.
Download or read book Contemporary Black American Playwrights and Their Plays written by Bernard L. Peterson Jr. and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1988-05-17 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work provides a wealth of information on obscure and overlooked American playwrights as well as some famous ones; it will be a welcome addition for collections specializing in the theater arts. Reference Books Bulletin This directory and index, the first such volume devoted exclusively to contemporary black American dramatists, will have an important place in theatre collections. It captures and preserves an elusive part of artistic endeavor, giving access to literally thousands of dramatic works that would otherwise be lost to scholars and the public. Organized as an encyclopedia, it provides information on more than 600 noteworthy Black American playwrights whose plays have been written, produced, or published between 1950 and the present. The volume begins with an introductory essay surveying the history of contemporary black American drama. Playwrights, screenwriters, radio and television scriptwriters, and musical theatre collaborators are treated in individual entries that comprise the bulk of the book. The volume also supplies a bibliography of anthologies, books, and periodicals cited; mailing addresses for more than 200 of the playwrights; and title and subject indexes.
Book Synopsis Classic Plays from the Negro Ensemble Company by : Gus Edwards
Download or read book Classic Plays from the Negro Ensemble Company written by Gus Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology celebrates more than twenty-five years of the Negro Ensemble Company's significant contribution to American theater. Collected here are ten plays most representative of the eclectic nature of the Negro Ensemble Company repertoire.
Book Synopsis African American Dramatists by : Emmanuel S. Nelson
Download or read book African American Dramatists written by Emmanuel S. Nelson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-10-30 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite their significant contributions to the American theater, African American dramatists have received less critical attention than novelists and poets. This reference offers thorough critical assessments of the lives and works of African American playwrights from the 19th century to the present. The book alphabetically arranges entries on more than 60 dramatists, including James Baldwin, Arna Bontemps, Ossie Davis, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Wright. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes a biography, a discussion of major works and themes, a summary of the playwright's critical reception, and primary and secondary bibliographies. The volume closes with a selected, general bibliography. African American dramatists have made enormous contributions to the theater and their works are included in numerous editions and anthologies. Some of the most popular plays of the 20th century have been written by African Americans, and high school students and undergraduates study their works. But for all their popularity and influence, African American playwrights have received less critical attention than poets and novelists. This reference offers thorough critical assessments of more than 60 African American dramatists from the 19th century to the present.
Book Synopsis Negro Playwrights in the American Theatre 1925-1959 by : Doris E. Abramson
Download or read book Negro Playwrights in the American Theatre 1925-1959 written by Doris E. Abramson and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lonesome Road written by Paul Green and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North Carolina playwright's third book and second book of plays. Notable for including the first appearance in book format of Green's Pulitzer Prize-winning play "In Abraham's Bosom," centered on an African-American farmer from North Carolina whose efforts at self-improvement are thwarted by segregation. The main character attempts to start a school, though once he succeeds at getting one, white people run him out of it and drive him to murder. The play was included in Burns Mantle's The Best Plays of 1926-1927, and starred Charles Sidney Gilpin in its original run on Broadway."--Vendor statement.
Author :Carlton W. Molette and Barbara J. Mole Publisher :Xlibris Corporation ISBN 13 :1483637395 Total Pages :315 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (836 download)
Book Synopsis AFROCENTRIC THEATRE by : Carlton W. Molette and Barbara J. Mole
Download or read book AFROCENTRIC THEATRE written by Carlton W. Molette and Barbara J. Mole and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Afrocentric Theatre updates the Molettes' groundbreaking book, Black Theatre: Premise and Presentation, that has been required reading in many Black theatre courses for over twenty-fi ve years. Afrocentric theatre is a culturally-based art form, not a race-based one. Culture and values shape perceptions of such phenomena as time, space, heroism, reality, truth, and beauty. These culturally variable social constructions determine standards for evaluating and analyzing art and govern the way people perceive theatrical presentations as well as fi lm and video drama. A play is not Afrocentric simply because it is by a Black playwright, or has Black characters, or addresses a Black theme or issue. Afrocentric Theatre describes the nature of an art form that embraces and disseminates African American culture and values. Further, it suggests a framework for interpreting andevaluating that art form and assesses the endeavors of dramatists who work from an Afrocentric perspective.
Book Synopsis A Study of the Treatment of the Negro Character in American Literature Since 1918 by : Sister Mary Bonaventure Bros
Download or read book A Study of the Treatment of the Negro Character in American Literature Since 1918 written by Sister Mary Bonaventure Bros and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An In-depth Study of the Major Plays of African American Playwright August Wilson by : Qun Wang (Ph. D.)
Download or read book An In-depth Study of the Major Plays of African American Playwright August Wilson written by Qun Wang (Ph. D.) and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After establishing the cultural and artistic frame, the study then devotes a chapter each to Wilson's most celebrated plays: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, The Piano Lesson, Two Trains Running, and Seven Guitars.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to African American Theatre by : Harvey Young
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to African American Theatre written by Harvey Young and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With contributions from the leading scholars in the field, this Companion provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of African American theatre, from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Along the way, it chronicles the evolution of African American theatre and its engagement with the wider community.
Book Synopsis The Plays of Georgia Douglas Johnson by : Georgia Douglas Johnson
Download or read book The Plays of Georgia Douglas Johnson written by Georgia Douglas Johnson and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2024-04-22 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recovering the stage work of one of America's finest black female writers This volume collects twelve of Georgia Douglas Johnson's one-act plays, including two never-before-published scripts found in the Library of Congress. As an integral part of Washington, D.C.'s, thriving turn-of-the-century literary scene, Johnson hosted regular meetings with Harlem Renaissance writers and other artists, including Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, May Miller, and Jean Toomer, and was herself considered among the finest writers of the time. Johnson also worked for U.S. government agencies and actively supported women's and minorities' rights. As a leading authority on Johnson, Judith L. Stephens provides a brief overview of Johnson's career and significance as a playwright; sections on the creative environment in which she worked; her S Street Salon; "The Saturday Nighters," and its significance to the New Negro Theatre; selected photographs; and a discussion of Johnson's genres, themes, and artistic techniques.
Book Synopsis The Negro and the Drama by : Frederick Weldon Bond
Download or read book The Negro and the Drama written by Frederick Weldon Bond and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
