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Lost Plays of the Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1940

Lost Plays of the Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1940

Hatch, James V.
Hamalian, Leo

Paperback

Series: African American Life

Black American StudiesPlays

ISBN10: 0814325807
ISBN13: 9780814325803
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: Oct 1 1996
Pages: 468
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.11 Width: 6.08 Depth: 9.04
Language: English

This compilation of sixteen plays written during the Harlem Renaissance brings together for the first time the works of Langston Hughes, George S. Schuyler, Francis Hall Johnson, Shirley Graham, and others. In the introduction, James V. Hatch sets the plays in a historical context as he describes the challenges presented to artists by the political and social climate of the time. The topics of the plays cover the realm of the
human experience in styles as wide-ranging as poetry, farce, comedy, tragedy, social realism, and romance. Individual introductions to each play provide essential biographical background on the playwrights.

In the continuing rediscovery of writers and works from the Harlem Renaissance, Lost Plays of the Harlem Renaissance 1920-1940 serves as essential background for contemporary readers and is a valuable contribution to African American literary and theatrical scholarship.

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