King Hedley II
Author: August Wilson
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Set in 1985, this is the ninth play of Wilson's Century Cycle.
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August Wilson’s King Hedley II
Author: August Wilson
Publisher: Concord Theatricals
Published: 2015-09
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 0573704759
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Peddling stolen refrigerators in the feeble hope of making enough money to open a video store, King Hedley, a man whose self worth is built on self delusion, is scraping in the dirt of an urban backyard trying to plant seeds where nothing will grow. Getting, spending, killing and dying in a world where getting is hard and killing is commonplace are threads woven into this 1980's installment in the author's renowned cycle of plays about the black experience in America. Drawing on characters established in Seven Guitars, King Hedley II shows the shadows of the past reaching into the present as King seeks retribution for a lie perpetrated by his mother regarding the identity of his father.
Seven Guitars
Author: August Wilson
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 122
ISBN-13: 9780573696008
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Set in Pittsburgh in 1948, Seven Guitars explores the black experience in America as friends of Floyd "Schoolboy Barton" gather together to mourn the sudden death of the talented blues guitarist who was on the brink of success. Flashing back to the week prior to his passing, the true reasons for his tragic demise are revealed.
August Wilson
Author: Alan Nadel
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2010-05-16
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1587299356
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contributors to this collection of 15 essays are academics in English, theater, and African American studies. They focus on the second half of Wilson's century cycle of plays, examining each play within the larger context of the cycle and highlighting themes within and across particular plays. Some topics discussed include business in the street in Jitney and Gem of the Ocean, contesting black male responsibilities in Jitney, the holyistic blues of Seven Guitars, violence as history lesson in Seven Guitars and King Hedley II, and ritual death and Wilson's female Christ. The book offers an index of plays, critics, and theorists, but not a subject index. Nadel is chair of American literature and culture at the University of Kentucky.
The Ground on which I Stand
Author: August Wilson
Publisher: Theatre Communications Grou
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 54
ISBN-13: 9781559361873
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →August Wilson's radical and provocative call to arms.
August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle
Author: Sandra G. Shannon
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2015-12-31
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 0786478004
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Providing a detailed study of American playwright August Wilson (1945-2005), this collection of new essays explores the development of the author's ethos across his twenty-five-year creative career--a process that transformed his life as he retraced the lives of his fellow "Africans in America." While Wilson's narratives of Pittsburgh and Chicago are microcosms of black life in America, they also reflect the psychological trauma of his disconnection with his biological father, his impassioned efforts to discover and reconnect with the blues, with Africa and with poet/activist Amiri Baraka, and his love for the vernacular of Pittsburgh.
August Wilson's Jitney
Author: August Wilson
Publisher: Concord Theatricals
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9780573627958
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Regular cabs will not travel to the Pittsburgh Hill District of the 1970s, and so the residents turn to each other. Jitney dramatizes the lives of men hustling to make a living as jitneys--unofficial, unlicensed taxi cab drivers. When the boss Becker's son returns from prison, violence threatens to erupt. What makes this play remarkable is not the plot; Jitney is Wilson at his most real--the words these men use and the stories they tell form a true slice of life."--The Wikipedia entry, accessed 5/22/2014.
The Best Man
Author: Gore Vidal
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 94
ISBN-13: 9780822215271
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →THE STORY: The New York Post describes the plot as follows: ...William Russell, the ex-Secretary of State, is a wit and scholar with high liberal principles, beloved of the eggheads and suspected by practical politicians. Joseph Cantwell is a
Two Trains Running
Author: August Wilson
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2019-08-06
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 0593087623
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano Lesson comes a “vivid and uplifting” (Time) play about unsung men and women who are anything but ordinary. August Wilson established himself as one of our most distinguished playwrights with his insightful, probing, and evocative portraits of Black America and the African American experience in the twentieth century. With the mesmerizing Two Trains Running, he crafted what Time magazine called “his most mature work to date.” It is Pittsburgh, 1969, and the regulars of Memphis Lee’s restaurant are struggling to cope with the turbulence of a world that is changing rapidly around them and fighting back when they can. The diner is scheduled to be torn down, a casualty of the city’s renovation project that is sweeping away the buildings of a community, but not its spirit. For just as sure as an inexorable future looms right around the corner, these people of “loud voices and big hearts” continue to search, to father, to persevere, to hope. With compassion, humor, and a superb sense of place and time, Wilson paints a vivid portrait of everyday lives in the shadow of great events.
The Cambridge Companion to August Wilson
Author: Christopher Bigsby
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-11-29
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781139827997
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →One of America's most powerful and original dramatists, August Wilson offered an alternative history of the twentieth century, as seen from the perspective of black Americans. He celebrated the lives of those seemingly pushed to the margins of national life, but who were simultaneously protagonists of their own drama and evidence of a vital and compelling community. Decade by decade, he told the story of a people with a distinctive history who forged their own future, aware of their roots in another time and place, but doing something more than just survive. Wilson deliberately addressed black America, but in doing so discovered an international audience. Alongside chapters addressing Wilson's life and career, and the wider context of his plays, this Companion dedicates individual chapters to each play in his ten-play cycle, which are ordered chronologically, demonstrating Wilson's notion of an unfolding history of the twentieth century.
