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Harry J. Elam, Jr.
Examines Pulitzer-prizewinning playwright August Wilson’s published plays within the context of contemporary African American literature and in relation to concepts of memory and history, culture and resistance, race and representation…
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A Study Guide for August Wilson’s Fences, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Drama for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for…
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Patrick Maley
After August makes a significant contribution to the scholarship on Wilson and his undeniable impact on American drama.
Critics have long suggested that August Wilson, who called blues the best literature we have as black Americans , appropriated blues music for his plays. Patrick Maley argues instead that…
Shamal Abu-Baker Hussein
Wilson's approach can be seen as a communal romanticism, dealing with ordinary people, language, and problems, giving the priority to the feeling and human dignity over logic, power and money…
Gem of the Ocean reminds us why August Wilson is considered by some to be the Shakespeare of our time. Issues involving Honesty, Redemption, Forgiveness, Self-love, Faith, Life, and Death…
Ladrica Menson-Furr
This book gives an overview of the work from its inception to stagings on Broadway, exploring its use of African American vernacular genres and 19th Century Southern post-Reconstruction history.
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Just prior to his death in 2005, August Wilson, arguably the most important American playwright of the last quarter-century, completed an ambitious cycle of ten plays, each set in a…
A Study Guide for August Wilson’s Radio Golf, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
A Study Guide for August Wilson’s Seven Guitars , excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Drama for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
Jen Bryant
A celebration of August Wilson’s journey from a child in Pittsburgh to one of America’s greatest playwrights
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A Study Guide for August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Drama for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
A Study Guide for August Wilson’s Two Trains Running, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
Rachel Lynett
The fourteenth winner of the Yale Drama Series prize explores Blackness and the reasons why joy and peace might be harder to get than we think
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Providing a detailed portrait of American playwright August Wilson (1945-2005), this collection of new essays explores the development of the author’s ethos across his twenty-year creative career - a process…
Margaret Booker
Booker examines the work of American playwrights Lillian Hellman and August Wilson. Although different and seemingly unconnected, both dramatists rewrite history to reflect their political activism while espousing a shared…
Sanford Sternlicht
A short literary guide to one of the US’s greatest African American dramatists, August Wilson’s Twentieth-Century Cycle Plays will serve a wide range of students, teachers, theatre professionals, and theatre…
A Study Guide for August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
A Study Guide for August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
Keith Clark
From Frederick Douglass onwards, the preoccupation of black writers with manhood and masculinity is a constant. This title explores how in their own work three major African American writers contest…
August Wilson
For use in schools and libraries only. During the 1950s Troy Maxson struggles against racism and tries to preserve his feelings of pride in himself.
Showcases a selection of award-winning African American drama. The seven plays represent a wide range of talents, experience and perspectives brought to bear on diverse themes, from a unique moment…
Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
The ninth play of Wilson’s 10-play masterwork
Set in 1985, this is the ninth play of Wilson’s Century Cycle.
The second play of Wilson’s Century Cycle, set in 1911.
The first play Wilson wrote for the Cycle, set in 1927.
Winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
The fifth play of Wilson’s Century Cycle, set in 1948.
Set in 1969, during the Civil Rights Movement and the rise of Black Power.
The eighth play of Wilson’s Century Cycle, set in 1977.
August Evans Wilson
At the Mercy of Tiberius is not a story of Ancient Rome. It is set in a Southern section of the United States Augusta J Evans was a Southern author…
Patrick Ludwig
Seminar paper from the year 1998 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (FB05 Englisches Seminar), course: The City in American Literature and Culture…
Joan Herrington
African-American playwright August Wilsom is a dominant presence on Broadway and in regional theatres and college drama courses throughout the country. In little more than a decade, his work has…
This stimulating collection of essays, the first comprehensive critical examination of the work of two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson, deals individually with his five major plays and also addresses…
Andreas Fingas
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Bamberg, course: African American Drama, 8 entries in the bibliography…
August Heckscher
Scholar, reformer, orator, president, and peacemaker, Wilson was one of the most challenging political forces in 20th-century American politics. This acclaimed biography–the first to use the full corpus of Wilson’s…
Rereleased in time for its first Broadway run, Jitney is the seventh in Wilson’s 10-play cycle on the black experience in 20th century America
The crowning achievement of August Wilson’s Century Cycle.
Riley K Temple
August Wilson (1945-2005) wrote one play for every decade of the twentieth century that explored black life in America for the descendants of slaves. All of his characters seek wholeness…
Steve Wilson
Ten-year-old Sadie Meadows is reading in bed on New Year's Eve when she notices an unopened present beneath her window. She finds it contains a book called The World from…
The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International Law, 1600-1926, brings together foreign, comparative, and international titles in a single resource. Its International Law component features works of some…
This proceedings volume consists of papers presented at the Seventh International Workshop on Computer-Aided Scheduling of Pllblic Transport, which was held at th th the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from…
