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Lost plays of the Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1940 / edited by James V. Hatch and Leo Hamalian.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: African American life seriesPublisher: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [1996]Copyright date: ©1996Description: 1 online resource (467 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780814338339
  • 081433833X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Lost plays of the Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1940.DDC classification:
  • 812/.52080896073 20
LOC classification:
  • PS628.N4 L67 1996eb
Online resources:
Contents:
On the fields of France / Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr. -- A pillar of the church / Willis Richardson -- The yellow peril / George S. Schuyler -- Mother liked it / Alvira Hazzard -- Son-boy / Joseph S. Mitchell -- The girl from back home / Ralf M. Coleman -- Black damp / John Frederick Matheus -- You mus' be bo'n ag'in / Andrew M. Burris -- Environment / Mercedes Gilbert -- Run little chillun / Francis Hall Johnson -- Darker brother / Conrad Seiler -- Scarlet sister Barry ; Young black Joe ; The organizer ; The em-Fuehrer Jones / Langston Hughes -- Track thirteen / Shirley Graham.
In: Literature Online - Twentieth Century DramaSummary: This compilation of sixteen plays written during the Harlem Renaissance brings together for the first time the works of Langston Hughes, George S. Schuyler, Francis Hall Johnson, Shirley Graham, and others. In the introduction, James V. Hatch sets the plays in a historical context as he describes the challenges presented to artists by the political and social climate of the time. The topics of the plays cover the realm of the human experience in styles as wide-ranging as poetry, farce, comedy, tragedy, social realism, and romance. Individual introductions to each play provide essential biographical background on the playwrights. In the continuing rediscovery of writers and works from the Harlem Renaissance, Lost Plays of the Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1940, serves as essential background for contemporary readers and is a valuable contribution to African American literary and theatrical scholarship.
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This compilation of sixteen plays written during the Harlem Renaissance brings together for the first time the works of Langston Hughes, George S. Schuyler, Francis Hall Johnson, Shirley Graham, and others. In the introduction, James V. Hatch sets the plays in a historical context as he describes the challenges presented to artists by the political and social climate of the time. The topics of the plays cover the realm of the human experience in styles as wide-ranging as poetry, farce, comedy, tragedy, social realism, and romance. Individual introductions to each play provide essential biographical background on the playwrights. In the continuing rediscovery of writers and works from the Harlem Renaissance, Lost Plays of the Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1940, serves as essential background for contemporary readers and is a valuable contribution to African American literary and theatrical scholarship.

Includes bibliographical references.

On the fields of France / Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr. -- A pillar of the church / Willis Richardson -- The yellow peril / George S. Schuyler -- Mother liked it / Alvira Hazzard -- Son-boy / Joseph S. Mitchell -- The girl from back home / Ralf M. Coleman -- Black damp / John Frederick Matheus -- You mus' be bo'n ag'in / Andrew M. Burris -- Environment / Mercedes Gilbert -- Run little chillun / Francis Hall Johnson -- Darker brother / Conrad Seiler -- Scarlet sister Barry ; Young black Joe ; The organizer ; The em-Fuehrer Jones / Langston Hughes -- Track thirteen / Shirley Graham.

English.

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