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The Plays to 1942: Mulatto to the Sun Do Move (Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Vol 5)
Langston Hughes
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Description for The Plays to 1942: Mulatto to the Sun Do Move (Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Vol 5)
Hardcover. This volume contains the plays written by Langston Hughes between 1930 and 1942, alone and in collaboration. Almost all the plays were performed during the same period; a few have never seen the stage, but are included because they indicate the range of Hughes's artistic and political concerns. Series: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes. Num Pages: 616 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DD; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 56. Weight in Grams: 1161.
But someday somebody'll Stand up and talk about me - Black and beautiful - And sing about me. And put on plays about me! I reckon it'll be Me myself! Yes, it'll be me. Langston Hughes is least known for his theatrical endeavors, yet his attention to the theater was lifelong. His love of the stage began in childhood, and from the late 1920s on he was continually writing plays, for black community theater, for theater companies he established himself, and for the Broadway and off-Broadway stage. His early plays endeavor to provide ""authentic"" representations of African American life, both ... Read more
But someday somebody'll Stand up and talk about me - Black and beautiful - And sing about me. And put on plays about me! I reckon it'll be Me myself! Yes, it'll be me. Langston Hughes is least known for his theatrical endeavors, yet his attention to the theater was lifelong. His love of the stage began in childhood, and from the late 1920s on he was continually writing plays, for black community theater, for theater companies he established himself, and for the Broadway and off-Broadway stage. His early plays endeavor to provide ""authentic"" representations of African American life, both ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Missouri
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Series
The Collected Works of Langston Hughes
Condition
New
Number of Pages
616
Place of Publication
Missouri, United States
ISBN
9780826213693
SKU
V9780826213693
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About Langston Hughes
Lesile Sanders is on the faculty at York University and is the cofounder of the Centre for the Study of Black Cultures in Canada. She is the author of The Development of Black Theater in America.
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