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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780139127335
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Errol Hill
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 174
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Critical essays on the history, impact and future of the black theater movement in the United States. Volume one traces its historical origins from its African and American roots and studies important black plays and individual playwrights from the Harlem Renaissance down to Ed Bullins. Volume two examines black theater companies and raises some of the moral and aesthetic questions they pose for audiences and critics, black and white. The contributors include Darwin T. Turner, Lindsay Patterson and Stanley Kauffman.
Author: Errol Hill
Publisher:
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780936839271
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Errol Hill
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780936839271
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →(Applause Books). From the origins of the Negro spiritual and the birth of the Harlem Renaissance to the emergence of a national black theatre movement, The Theatre of Black Americans offers a penetrating look at a black art form that has exploded into an American cultural institution. Among the essays: James Hatch Some African Influences on the Afro-American Theatre; Shelby Steele Notes on Ritual in the New Black Theatre; Sister M. Francesca Thompson OSF The Lafayette Players; Ronald Ross The Role of Blacks in the Federal Theatre.
Author: Errol Hill
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2000-04-01
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 1476841578
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →(Applause Books). From the origins of the Negro spiritual and the birth of the Harlem Renaissance to the emergence of a national black theatre movement, The Theatre of Black Americans offers a penetrating look at a black art form that has exploded into an American cultural institution. Among the essays: James Hatch Some African Influences on the Afro-American Theatre; Shelby Steele Notes on Ritual in the New Black Theatre; Sister M. Francesca Thompson OSF The Lafayette Players; Ronald Ross The Role of Blacks in the Federal Theatre.
Author: Rena Fraden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996-06-28
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780521565608
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the 1930s, the Work Progress Administration funded a massive Federal Theatre Project in America's major urban centres, presenting hundreds of productions, some of the most popular and memorable of which were produced in the highly controversial and avant garde 'Negro Units'. This experiment in government-supported culture brought to the forefront one of the central problems in American democratic culture - the representation of racial difference. Those in the profession quickly discovered inescapable ideological responsibilities attending any sort of show, whether apparently entertaining or political in nature. Exploring the liberal idealism of the thirties and the critical debates in black journals over the role of an African American theatre, Fraden also looks at the obstacles facing black playwrights, audiences, and actors in a changing milieu.
Author: Jeffrey H. Richards
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014-02
Total Pages: 593
ISBN-13: 0199731497
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume explores the history of American drama from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It describes origins of early republican drama and its evolution during the pre-war and post-war periods. It traces the emergence of different types of American drama including protest plays, reform drama, political drama, experimental drama, urban plays, feminist drama and realist plays. This volume also analyzes the works of some of the most notable American playwrights including Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, and Arthur Miller and those written by women dramatists.
