Drama Books


The Piano Lesson Best Price: $4.10 August Wilson's "Century Cycle" presents the African-American experience in the...	Joe Turner's Come and Gone Best Price: $0.10 Herald Loomis says this to his estranged wife in the final scene of this play, set in a 1911...	To Be Young, Gifted and Black Best Price: $7.49 This is a good compendium of the author's letters, essays and short prose that comments of...	A Raisin in the Sun and The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window Best Price: $8.17 A raisin in the sun is a greaat book, that is about a man named Walter that wanted the best for...	Ceremonies in Dark Old Men: A Play Best Price: $11.99 Ceremonies in Dark Old Men , a classic of American theater, is the poignant story of a family in...



Voices of Color: 50 Scenes and Monologues by African American Playwrights (Applause Acting Series) Best Price: $8.77 Voices of Color is a trailblazing collection of scenes and monologues by African American...	Beauty's Daughter, Monster, The Gimmick: Three Plays Best Price: $0.49 The sheer exuberance of language that pours forth in Dael Orlandersmith's plays has dazzled...	The National Black Drama Anthology: Eleven Plays from America's Leading African-American Theaters Best Price: $11.31 This book is a beautiful represention of today's Black theater. We so often "forget"...	The Cambridge Companion to August Wilson (Cambridge Companions to Literature) Best Price: $16.87 One of America's most powerful and original dramatists, August Wilson offered an alternative...	A Raisin in the Sun (Modern Library) Best Price: $8.91 I loved this book! I saw the movie, but the book goes into much more detail. It's amazing how...



Moon Marked and Touched by Sun: Plays by African-American Women Best Price: $14.85 "Moon Marked and Touched by Sun: Plays by African-American Women" takes the reader on...	Black Comedy - 9 Plays: A Critical Anthology with Interviews and Essays Best Price: $11.99 This first-of-its kind collection includes a wide range of works, from an early examination and...	Monologues on Black Life Best Price: $6.00 I bought this book above others to get a sense of monologues that many minorities including...	Black Women Playwrights: Visions on the American Stage (Studies in Modern Drama, No 11) Best Price: $79.04 This collection of critical essays on plays by African American female playwrights from the...	Colored Contradictions: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Plays The plays presented in this lovely book are a fair representation of the African-American...

Black Feminism in Contemporary Drama Best Price: $28.00 In tracing black feminism in contemporary drama by black women playwrights, Lisa M. Anderson...	Resistance, Parody and Double Consciousness in African American Theatre, 1895-19 Best Price: $72.01 The history of African American performance and theatre is a topic that few scholars have...	Black Theatre USA Revised and Expanded Edition: Plays by African Americans from 1847 to Today This anthology contain a wealth of plays written by black playwrights. While looking for less...	African American Performance and Theater History: A Critical Reader Best Price: $72.63 African-American Performance and Theatre History is an anthology of critical writings that...	Lost Plays of the Harlem Renaissance 1920-1940 (African American Life Series) Best Price: $24.95 I was interested in the plays written by African-Americans during the Harlem Renaissance and...

Black Dionysus: Greek Tragedy and African American Theatre Best Price: $35.00 Many playwrights, authors, poets and historians have used images, metaphors and references to...	African American Theater (Cultural History of Literature) Best Price: $55.22 Written in a clear, accessible, storytelling style, African American Theater will shine a bright...	Understanding A Raisin in the Sun: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents (The Greenwood Press "Literature in Context" Series) Best Price: $51.95 A Raisin in the Sun is the first play by a black woman to be produced in a Broadway theater....	The Prize Plays and Other One-Acts Published in Periodicals (African-American Women Writers, 1910-1940) While this volume of publisher GK Hall's series "African American Women Writers,...	Contemporary African American Theater: Afrocentricity in the Works of Larry Neal, Amiri Baraka, and Charles Fuller (Studies in African American History and Culture) The Black Arts Movement was sparked by the Civil Rights movement and the urge to produce and...

What the Wine-Sellers Buy Plus Three: Four Plays by Ron Milner (African American Life Series) Best Price: $37.95 Ron Milner is one of the great overlooked African-American writers of our time. Perhaps it is...	African American Scenebook (Source Books on Education) Best Price: $44.88 Kathryn Ervin and Ethel Pitts Walker have compiled a delicately balanced and impeccably coherent...	In Search of a Model for African-American Drama Best Price: $45.95 This work is a comparative study of how these three dramatists seek and devise new models to...	Classic Plays from the Negro Ensemble Company This anthology celebrates more than twenty-five years of the Negro? Ensemble Company's...	Strange Fruit: Plays on Lynching by American Women Best Price: $49.95 When I read Strange Fruit it was in my African American literature class at Savannah State...

Plays and Pageants from the Life of the Negro Best Price: $14.99 Here in a facsimile of the 1930 edition is Willis Richardson's collection of twelve plays and...	Willis Richardson, Forgotten Pioneer of African-American Drama (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies) Best Price: $4.84 During the 1920s and 1930s, Willis Richardson (1889-1977) was highly respected as a leading...	Contemporary African American Female Playwrights: An Annotated Bibliography (Bibliographies and Indexes in Afro-American and African Studies) Best Price: $86.95 Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun (1959) was a major dramatic success and brought to the...	Lorraine Hansberry: A Research and Production Sourcebook (Modern Dramatists Research and Production Sourcebooks) Best Price: $69.00 I LOVED I	African American Women Playwrights: A Research Guide (Critical Studies on Black Life and Culture) Best Price: $85.43 This Guide includes the primary and secondary works and summaries of plays of 15 prominent...

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