| Plays and Pageants from the Life of the Negro Contributor(s): Richardson, Willis (Editor), Gray, Christine R. (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1934110558 ISBN-13: 9781934110553 Publisher: University Press of Mississippi OUR PRICE: $24.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1993 Annotation: A reprinting of the first collection of stage works written by African Americans |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | American - General - Performing Arts | Theater - History & Criticism - Literary Collections | American - African American |
| Dewey: 812.520 |
| Physical Information: 0.93" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.17 lbs) 420 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Here in a facsimile of the 1930 edition is Willis Richardson's collection of twelve plays and pageants that playwrights of the era wrote expressly for black audiences, mainly students and other young black people who staged them. Not available in any other source, this is the important work of nine significant dramatists who helped to lay the foundations of African American drama. Included are Thelma Myrtle Duncan's Sacrifice, Maud Cuney-Hare's Antar of Araby, John Matheus's Ti Yette, May Miller's Graven Images and Riding the Goat, Willis Richardson's The Black Horseman, The King's Dilemma, and The House of Sham, Inez M. Burke's Two Races, Dorothy C. Guinn's Out of the Dark, Frances Gunner's The Light of the Women, and Edward J. McCoo's Ethiopia at the Bar of Justice. This edition also contains Richardson's introduction from the 1930 edition, not included in later ver |