Black Theater: A 20th Century Collection of the Work of Its Best Playwrights

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Title

Black Theater: A 20th Century Collection of the Work of Its Best Playwrights

This edition

"Black Theater: A 20th Century Collection of the Work of Its Best Playwrights" . Ed. Lindsay Patterson. New York: Dodd, 1971. ix+493 pp.

Other editions, reprints, and translations


• Repr. New York: Plume, 1973.

Table of contents

● Introduction

● Arna Bontemps and Countee Cullen / St. Louis Woman
● Louis Peterson / Take a Giant Step
● William Branch / In Splendid Error
● Alice Childress / Trouble in Mind
● Langston Hughes / Simply Heavenly
● Lorraine Hansberry / A Raisin in the Sun
● Ossie Davis / Purlie Victoriou
● LeRoi Jones / Dutchman
● James Baldwin / The Amen Corner
● Ed Bullins / In the Wine Time
● Charles Gordone / No Place to Be Somebody

Reviews and notices of anthology


• n/a

Cited in


Rowell 1972: 61] [Hatch 1991: 190] [Kinnamon 1997: 475]

Item Number

A0153

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