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The darker face of the earth : a verse play in fourteen scenes / by Rita Dove.

Title
The darker face of the earth : a verse play in fourteen scenes / by Rita Dove.
Author
Dove, Rita
Publication
[Brownsville, OR] : Story Line Press, 1994.

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TextRequest in advance PS3554.O884 D68 1994Off-site

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Additional Authors
  • Vendler, Helen, 1933-
  • Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe
  • Story Line Press publisher.
Description
140, [4] pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
A play in verse about a white woman who has a black child by a slave in pre-Civil War South Carolina. The author is a Pulitzer Prize winner and is the present U.S. poet laureate. This verse play, based on the story of Oedipus & placed within the context of slavery, is set on a plantation in antebellum South Carolina.
Subject
  • Women plantation owners > Drama
  • African Americans > Drama
  • Mothers and sons > Drama
  • Plantation life > Drama
  • Enslaved persons > Drama
  • Women plantation owners > South Carolina > Drama
  • Mothers and sons > South Carolina > Drama
  • Enslaved persons > South Carolina > Drama
  • African Americans
  • Mothers and sons
  • Plantation life
  • Enslaved persons
  • Women plantation owners
  • South Carolina > Drama
  • South Carolina > History > 1775-1865 > Drama
  • South Carolina
  • English drama
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • Presentation copies.
  • Historical drama
  • Drama
  • Historical drama.
  • Plays.
  • Théâtre historique.
Note
  • Place of publication from title page verso.
  • "The edition consists of 4,000 unsigned copies in wrappers, 250 numbered copies hardbound and signed by the author, and 26 copies lettered A-Z, hardbound and signed by the author and illustrator"--Colophon.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 0934257744
  • 9780934257749
LCCN
93039433
OCLC
  • 29311813
  • SCSB-12613133
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library