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Negro playwrights in the American theatre, 1925-1959 / Doris E. Abramson.

By: Series: Columbia paperbackPublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, 1969.Description: xii, 335 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 023103248X
  • 9780231032483
  • 0231085931
  • 9780231085939
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 812/.5/09
LOC classification:
  • PS351 .A2
  • PS351 .A2 1969
Other classification:
  • 812.509896073
Contents:
Prologue -- Beginnings -- The Twenties -- The Thirties -- The Forties -- The Fifties -- Epilogue.
Summary: "Between 1925 and 1959 only eighteen plays by fifteen Negro playwrights were produced in the New York professional theatre." Included are Wallace Thurman, Frank Wilson, Rudolph Fisher, Abram Hill, Theodore Browne, Theodore Ward, Richard Wright, William Branch, Alice Childress, Lofton Mitchell, Louis Peterson, and Lorraine Hansberry.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-317) and index.

"Between 1925 and 1959 only eighteen plays by fifteen Negro playwrights were produced in the New York professional theatre." Included are Wallace Thurman, Frank Wilson, Rudolph Fisher, Abram Hill, Theodore Browne, Theodore Ward, Richard Wright, William Branch, Alice Childress, Lofton Mitchell, Louis Peterson, and Lorraine Hansberry.

Prologue -- Beginnings -- The Twenties -- The Thirties -- The Forties -- The Fifties -- Epilogue.

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