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Plays of Negro life : a source-book of native American drama
- Title
- Plays of Negro life : a source-book of native American drama / selected and edited by Alain Locke and Montgomery Gregory ; decorations and illustrations by Aaron Douglas.
- Publication
- New York : Harper & Brothers, Publishers, MCMXXVII [1927]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PS627.N4 L635 1927 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 430 pages : illustrations, portraits; 23 cm
- Summary
- "The drama of negro life is developing primarily because a native American drama is in process of evolution. Thus, although it heralds the awakening of the dormant dramatic gifts of the Negro folk temperament and has meant the phenomenal rise within a decade's span of a Negro drama and a possible Negro Theatre, the significance is if anything more national than racial. For pioneering genius in the development of the native American drama, such as Eugene O'Neill, Ridgley Torrence and Paul Green, now sees and recognizes the dramatically undeveloped potentialities of Negro life and folkways as a promising province of native idioms and source materials in which a developing national drama can find distinctive new themes, characteristic and typical situations, authentic atmosphere. The growing number of successful and representative plays of this type form a valuable and significant contribution to the theatre of today and open intriguing and fascinating possibilities for the theatre of tomorrow"-- Introduction.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Inscriptions.
- American drama.
- Drama
- One-act plays
- Drama.
- One-act plays.
- Bookplates (Provenance)
- Théâtre.
- Pièces en un acte.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 424-430; "Bibliography of Negro drama").
- Additional Formats (note)
- Also issued online.
- Provenance (note)
- Ownership inscription, "Margaret Hart," on front pastedown.
- Binding (note)
- Original cloth-backed patterned boards designed by Aaron Douglas.
- Contents
- Introduction : the drama of Negro life / Alain Locke -- The dreamy kid : a play in one act / Eugene O'Neill -- The rider of dreams : a one act play for the Negro theatre / Ridgley Torrence -- Rackey : a play in one act / Ernest Howard Culbertson -- The no 'count boy : a folk comedy in one act / Paul Green -- The flight of the natives : a play in one act / Willis Richardson -- White dresses : a folk tragedy / Paul Green -- In Abraham's bosom : a play in one act / Paul Green -- Sugar Cane : a one act play of Negro life / Frank H. Wilson -- 'Cruiter : a one act play / John Matheus -- The starter : a comedy of Harlem life / Eulalie Spence -- Judge Lynch : a drama in one act / John William Rogers, Jr. -- Granny Maumee : a play for the Negro theatre / Ridgley Torrence -- The bird child : a play of the South / Lucy White -- Balo : a one act sketch of Negro life / Jean Toomer -- Plumes : a folk tragedy / Georgia Douglas Johnson -- The broken banjo : a folk tragedy / Willis Richardson -- The death dance : an African play / Thelma Duncan -- The Emperor Jones / Eugene O'Neill -- The Danse Calinda : a pantomime with folk-music / Ridgley Torrence -- Sahdji, an African ballet / Richard Bruce -- Notes on the plays and the authors -- A chronology of the Negro theatre / by Montgomery Gregory -- Bibliography of Negro drama / compiled by Alain Locke.
- LCCN
- 83232953
- OCLC
- 679774
- ocm00679774
- SCSB-8784816
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library