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From:Modern Drama (Vol. 45, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn "Notes of a Coloured Girl," the Foreword to her Governor-General's-Award-winning, 1997 play, Harlem Duet, African-Canadian playwright Djanet Sears traces a literary and cultural genealogy of her apprenticeship in the...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)The importance of Lorraine Hansberry as an American dramatist rests with two plays, A Raisin in the Sun and The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, both produced during her tragically short life of 34 years. The first, by...
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From:Contemporary Dramatists (5th ed.)Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey is usually considered as part of the "angry" upsurge of the late 1950s which shook the British theatre out of its complacency and boredom. But it equally belongs with a contemporaneous...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)When African American poet-playwright Ntozake Shange declared in her 1976-77 Broadway debut, for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf, that "bein alive & bein a woman & bein colored is a...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)African American dramatist Lorraine Hansberry was only twenty-nine when A Raisin in the Sun opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on 11 March 1959. She was the first African American woman to have a play staged on...
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From:Contemporary Dramatists (5th ed.)The production of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf established Ntozake Shange as a major force in American theatre. True to the Xhosa name she had received in 1971, she was indeed...
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From:Contemporary Dramatists (5th ed.)Most of the plays of Alice Childress are about common people. Avoiding racial stereotypes found in much of contemporary literature and drama, her works present deftly drawn and realistic portraits of human beings...
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From:The Journal of Negro History (Vol. 79, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedDrama critics tend to examine Angelina Weld Grimke's play 'Rachel' only in terms of its racial content or messages. They often overlook the message of gender inequalities which is very evident in the way the play's male...
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From:Modern Drama (Vol. 43, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn discussing the work of postcolonial writers, Homi Bhabha has observed that "the peoples of the periphery return to rewrite the history and fiction of the metropolis" ("Narrating" 6). While Bhabha is mainly discussing...
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From:REGS (Revista de Estudios de Genero y Sexualidades) (Vol. 44, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Mar Gómez Glez's 2014 site-specific and fact-inspired play Bajo el agua portrays the governing presence of the disciplinary mechanisms that operate upon the construction of the female body and feminine...
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From:Modern Drama (Vol. 41, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedA critical analysis of Lorrain Hansberry's 'A Raisin in the Sun' and Angelina Weld Grimke's 'Rachel,' is presented, focusing on the portrayal of racial subjugation and lynching to dramatize the experience of black women....
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From:Contemporary Dramatists (5th ed.)It is not often that a writer has the opportunity to create a literary fashion and even a new genre, but theatrical thrillers and mysteries can legitimately be divided into pre-Sleuth and post-Sleuth, indicating more...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)A consciousness of society and politics as well as the individual informs John Arden's work as a playwright, critic, and actor. In almost any context one attempts to place him he appears, to his credit, abrasive and...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Man and Superman was the last play Bernard Shaw had to issue in book form to reach a public, while theatrical managements ignored his work. As a result, the text has a chameleon identity. Presented, with long...
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From:Contemporary Dramatists (5th ed.)Ngugi wa Thiong'o's plays are the minor works of a major novelist. Indeed, one book on his work tacitly ignores the plays. Nevertheless, his first play remains important for its historical priority and in his later work...
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From:Contemporary American DramatistsWere it not for the success of J.B.: A Play in Verse, Archibald MacLeish would be just another of the many modern poets who yearned to hear their verse in the theatre without accommodating that verse to the exigencies of...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)In his review of the Yale Repertory Theatre production of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom in 1984, the New York Times critic Frank Rich hailed August Wilson as a "major find for the American Theatre." Within the next eight...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)``An enthusiasm for Shelley seems to me to be an affair of adolescence,'' said T.S. Eliot. No harm in that in itself, of course. If his rush of images, his lyrical intensity, his ``passion for reforming the world,'' his...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)Critics are divided as to whether Edward Albee is a realist or absurdist. Critics and public are divided as to the quality of his writing after Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Actors and directors are divided as to...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)The name of Cyril Tourneur would be virtually unknown were it not for its association with The Revenger's Tragedy, one of the most impressive dramatic productions of the 17th century. Yet the association may be no more...