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If "Down at the Cross" is a stronger statement of Baldwin's position on racial issues than "My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation," the play Blues for Mister Charlie is stronger still ...
If "Down at the Cross" is a stronger statement of Baldwin's position on racial issues than "My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation," the play Blues for Mister Charlie is stronger still ...
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Hellman does not seem to understand the basic premise behind the strike play: the author's sympathies, and therefore the audience's, must be with the strikers. This should mean a spare, lean play with clear-cut issues as in The Cradle ...
Hellman does not seem to understand the basic premise behind the strike play: the author's sympathies, and therefore the audience's, must be with the strikers. This should mean a spare, lean play with clear-cut issues as in The Cradle ...
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Hughes's specific work for the theater includes nine full-length plays, two one-act plays, four gospel musicals, four opera librettos, and one screen-play. Despite this rather extensive production, he is not known as an outstanding ...
Hughes's specific work for the theater includes nine full-length plays, two one-act plays, four gospel musicals, four opera librettos, and one screen-play. Despite this rather extensive production, he is not known as an outstanding ...
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictThis supplement, the latest addition to the well-known "American Writers'' series, includes 29 authors. All except Frederick Douglass, the 19th-century orator and writer, are 20th-century poets ... Read full review
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| Title | American writers: a collection of literary biographies. Jane Addams to Sidney Lanier |
| Editor | Leonard Unger |
| Publisher | Charles Scribner's sons, 1979 |
| ISBN | 0684157977, 9780684157979 |
| Length | 373 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / American / General |
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