Black Drama
- Black Drama
- 19th century - present. (Alexander Street Press)
- Updated regularly. Contains approximately 1200 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. Also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays. The content represents North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Many of the works are rare, hard-to-find, or out of print.
The database covers key writings of the Harlem Renaissance, works performed for the Federal Theatre Project, and plays by critically acclaimed dramatists of the 1940s. The collection includes musical comedies, domestic dramas, folk dramas, history plays, anti-slavery plays, one-act plays, and other works. Many were published in a wide range of magazines and anthologies, others have never before been published or performed.
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- Related Subjects
- African American Studies
- African Studies
- American Studies
- English Literature
- Theatre
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- Related Types
- Archival Collections and Primary Sources
- Biographical Sources
- Book and Text Collections
- Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century
