Negro playwrights in the American theatre, 1925-1959 / Doris E. Abramson.
Series: Columbia paperbackPublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, 1969.Description: xii, 335 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 023103248X
- 9780231032483
- 0231085931
- 9780231085939
- American drama -- African American authors -- History and criticism
- American drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
- Theater -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans in literature
- African American theater
- Théâtre américain -- Auteurs noirs américains -- Histoire et critique
- Théâtre américain -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Théâtre -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Noirs américains dans la littérature
- Théâtre noir américain
- African American theater
- African Americans in literature
- African Americans -- Intellectual life
- American drama
- American drama -- African American authors
- Theater
- United States
- 1900-1999
- 812/.5/09
- PS351 .A2
- PS351 .A2 1969
- 812.509896073
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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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