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Black theater, U.S.A. : forty-five plays by Black Americans, 1847-1974

Title

Black theater, U.S.A. : forty-five plays by Black Americans, 1847-1974 / James V. Hatch, editor ; Ted Shine, consultant.

Publication

New York : Free Press, [1974]
©1974

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Description

x, 886 pages; 27 cm

Summary

Various themes and styles are represented in this anthology of comic and tragic works by Black American playwrights.

Alternative Title

45 plays by Black Americans, 1847-1974

Subjects

Genre/Form

Drama.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 875-880) and index.

Contents

The black doctor / Ira Aldridge -- The brown overcoat / Victor Sejour -- The escape; or A leap for freedom / William Wells Brown -- Caleb the degenerate / Joseph S. Cotter Sr -- Appearances / Garland Anderson -- Rachel / Angelina Grimke -- Mine eyes have seen / Alice Dunbar Nelson -- They that sit in darkness / Mary Burrill -- For unborn children / Myrtle Smith Livingston -- The church fight / Ruth Gaines-Shelton -- Undertow / Eulalie Spence -- The purple flower / Marita Bonner -- A Sunday morning in the South / Georgia Douglas Johnson -- Balo / Jean Toomer -- 'Cruiter / John Matheus -- The Idle Head / Willis Richardson -- Bad men / Randolph Edmonds -- Job Hunters / H.F.V. Edward -- Don't You Want to be Free? / Langston Hughes -- Big White Fog / Theodore Ward -- Divine Comedy / Owen Dodson -- Graven Images / May Miller -- Natural Man / Theodore Browne -- Flight of the Natives / Willis Richardson -- Native Son / Richard Wright and Paul Green -- District of Columbia / Stanley Richards -- Walk Hard / Abram Hill -- The Tumult and the Shouting / Thomas Pawley -- The Amen Corner / James Baldwin -- Take a Giant Step / Louis Peterson -- In Splendid Error / William Branch -- Star of the Morning / Loften Mitchell -- Limitations of Life / Langston Hughes -- Dry August (Mrs. Patterson) / Charles Sebree -- Fly Blackbird / Bernard Jackson and James V. Hatch -- Day of Absence / Douglas Turner Ward -- The Drinking Gourd / Lorraine Hansberry -- Wine in the Wilderness / Alice Childress -- The Owl Answers / Adrienne Kennedy -- Job Security / Martie Charles -- Little Ham / Langston Hughes -- The Slave / Imamu Amiri Baraka -- Goin' a Buffalo / Ed Bullins -- Herbert III / Ted Shine -- Blk Love Song #1 / Val Ferdinand.

Call Number

Sc 812.08-H (Hatch, J. Black theater, U.S.A.)

ISBN

0029141605
9780029141601

LCCN

75169234

OCLC

708491

Title

Black theater, U.S.A. : forty-five plays by Black Americans, 1847-1974 / James V. Hatch, editor ; Ted Shine, consultant.

Publisher

New York : Free Press, [1974]

Copyright Date

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 875-880) and index.

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Aldridge, Ira Frederick, 1807-1867, contributor.

Séjour, Victor, 1817-1874, contributor.

Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884, contributor.

Cotter, Joseph S. (Joseph Seamon), 1861-1949, contributor.

Anderson, Garland, 1886-1939, contributor.

Grimké, Angelina Weld, 1880-1958, contributor.

Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore, 1875-1935, contributor.

Burrill, Mary, 1884-1946, contributor.

Livingston, Myrtle Smith, contributor.

Gaines-Shelton, Ruth, contributor.

Spence, Eulalie, 1894-1981, contributor.

Bonner, Marita, 1898-1971, contributor.

Johnson, Georgia Douglas, 1886-1966, contributor.

Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967, contributor.

Matheus, John Frederick, 1887-1983, contributor.

Richardson, Willis, 1889-1977, contributor.

Edmonds, Randolph, 1900-1983, contributor.

Edward, H. F. V., 1898-1973, contributor.

Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967, contributor.

Ward, Theodore, 1902-1983, contributor.

Dodson, Owen, 1914-1983, contributor.

Miller, May, 1899-1995, contributor.

Browne, Theodore, contributor.

Wright, Richard, 1908-1960, contributor.

Green, Paul, 1894-1981, contributor.

Richards, Stanley, 1918-1980, contributor.

Hill, Abram, 1910-1986, contributor.

Pawley, Thomas D., 1917- contributor.

Baldwin, James, 1924-1987, contributor.

Peterson, Louis, 1922-1998. contributor.

Branch, William B., contributor.

Mitchell, Loften, contributor.

Sebree, Charles, contributor.

Jackson, C. Bernard, 1927-1996, contributor.

Hatch, James V. (James Vernon), 1928-2020, editor, compiler.

Ward, Douglas Turner, contributor.

Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965, contributor.

Childress, Alice, contributor.

Kennedy, Adrienne, contributor.

Charles, Martie, contributor.

Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014, contributor.

Bullins, Ed, contributor.

Shine, Ted, consultant.

Salaam, Kalamu ya, 1947- contributor.

Other Form:

Online version: Black theater, U.S.A.; forty-five plays by Black Americans, 1847-1974. New York, Free Press [1974] (OCoLC)573810451

Online version: Black theater, U.S.A.; forty-five plays by Black Americans, 1847-1974. New York, Free Press [1974] (OCoLC)608940935

Research Call Number

Sc 812.08-H (Hatch, J. Black theater, U.S.A.)

JFF 75-1025

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