Black Theatre, USA: Plays by African Americans
Subtitle: The Recent Period, 1935-Today
Contributors: James V. Hatch (Editor)
Edition: Rev Exp edition
Publisher: Free Press
Published: March 1, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9780684823072
Subjects: Drama texts, plays; Drama; Afro-Americans; Plays / Drama; Plays; General; American; Performing Arts / General; Afro-American authors; African American authors; American drama
First sentence: Three years before America entered World War II, playwright Owen Dodson mocked the celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation's seventy-fifth anniversary with these lines: This is a rusty time to sing in: A rusty broken hingeless time: The temperamental doors of liberty undone, Undone and lying before the lintels Of the doorway in this winter like dead gangsters.