Black Drama Anthology
Item
Title
Black Drama Anthology
This edition
"Black Drama Anthology" . Ed. Woodie King and Ron Milner. New York: Columbia UP, 1972. 671 pp.
Other editions, reprints, and translations
• Repr. New York: New American Library/Signet, 1972. 671 pp.
• Repr. New York: Meridian, 1986. 671 pp.
Table of contents
● Woodie King and Ron Miller / Introduction : Evolution of a People's Theater
● Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) / Junkies Are Full of (SHHH ...)
● Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) / Bloodrites
● Archie Shepp / Junebug Graduates Tonight
● Ed Bullins / Corner
● Ron Milner / Who's Got His Own
● Lonne Elder / Charades on East Fourth Street
● Clifford Mason / Gabriel
● Douglas Turner Ward / Brotherhood
● Oliver Pitcher / The One
● Donald Greaves / The Marriage
● Phillip Hayes Dean / The Owl Killer
● William Wellington Mackey / Requiem for Brother X
● Joseph A. Walker / Ododo
● Ben Caldwell / All White Caste
● Langston Hughes / Mother and Child
● Charles (Oyamo) Gordon / The Breakout
● Ron Zuber / Three X Love
● William Branch / Medal for Willie
● Peter DeAnda / Ladies in Waiting
● Martie Charles / Black Cycle
● Errol Hill / Strictly Matrimony
● Loften Mitchell / Star of the Morning
● Elaine Jackson / Toe Jam
● Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) / Junkies Are Full of (SHHH ...)
● Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) / Bloodrites
● Archie Shepp / Junebug Graduates Tonight
● Ed Bullins / Corner
● Ron Milner / Who's Got His Own
● Lonne Elder / Charades on East Fourth Street
● Clifford Mason / Gabriel
● Douglas Turner Ward / Brotherhood
● Oliver Pitcher / The One
● Donald Greaves / The Marriage
● Phillip Hayes Dean / The Owl Killer
● William Wellington Mackey / Requiem for Brother X
● Joseph A. Walker / Ododo
● Ben Caldwell / All White Caste
● Langston Hughes / Mother and Child
● Charles (Oyamo) Gordon / The Breakout
● Ron Zuber / Three X Love
● William Branch / Medal for Willie
● Peter DeAnda / Ladies in Waiting
● Martie Charles / Black Cycle
● Errol Hill / Strictly Matrimony
● Loften Mitchell / Star of the Morning
● Elaine Jackson / Toe Jam
Reviews and notices of anthology
• n/a
Commentary on anthology
• "King and Milner's twenty-three plays are all from the 1950s and after[,] except one, Langston Hughes's brief 'Mother and Child.' The apparatus in Black Drama Anthology is minimal but the selections are excellent" (Kinnamon 1997: 476).
Cited in
Hatch 1991: 188-89] [Kinnamon 1997: 476, gives date of publication as "1973"]
Item Number
A0175