24—LITERATURE—Plays

24—LITERATURE—Plays

1205

Baldwin, James. The amen corner; a play. New York, Dial Press, 1968. xvii, 91 p. PS3552.A45A8

1206

Baldwin, James. Blues for Mister Charlie, a play. New York, Dial Press, 1964. xv, 121 p. PS3552.A45B5

1207

Connelly, Marcus C. The green pastures, a fable, suggested by Roark Bradford's southern sketches, "Ol' man Adam an' his chillun." New York, Farrar & Rinehart [c1929] xvi, 173 p. PS3505.O4814G7 1929 [TR: Connelly, Marc]

In dramatic form, with cast of characters as presented at the Mansfield Theatre, New York, 1930.

Attempts "to present certain aspects of a living religion in the terms of its believers ... thousands of Negroes in the deep South."—p. xv.

1208

Cotter, Joseph S. Caleb, the degenerate, a play in four acts; a study of the types, customs, and needs of the American Negro. Louisville, Ky., Bradley & Gilbert Co., 1903. 57 p. port. PS3505.O862C3 1903

1209

Couch, William, comp. New black playwrights, an anthology. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press [1968] xxiii, 258 p. PS634.C684

1210

Davis, Ossie. Purlie victorious; a comedy in three acts. New York, S. French [c1961] 90 p. PS3507.A7444P8

1211

Duberman, Martin B. In white America, a documentary play. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1964. 112 p. PS3554.U25I5

1212

D'Usseau, Arnaud, and James Gow. Deep are the roots. New York, Scribner, 1946. xxvi, 205 p. plates. PS3507.U925D4

1213

Edmonds, Randolph. The land of cotton, and other plays. Washington, Associated Publishers [c1942] 267 p. PS3509.D56L3

Contents.—The land of cotton.—Gangsters over Harlem.—Yellow death.—Silas Brown.—The High court of Historia.

1214

Edmonds, Randolph. Shades and shadows. Boston, Meador Pub. Co., 1930. 171 p. PS3509.D56S5 1930

Contents.—The devil's price.—Hewers of wool.—Shades and shadows.—Everyman's land.—The tribal chief.—The phantom treasure.

1215

Edmonds, Randolph. Six plays for a Negro theatre. Foreword by Frederick H. Koch. Boston, W. H. Baker Co. [c1934] 155 p. PS3509.D56S6 1934

Contents.—Bad man.—Old man Pete.—Nat Turner.—Breeders.—Bleeding hearts.—The new window.

1216

Grimke, Angelina W. Rachel, a play in three acts. Boston, The Cornhill Co. [c1920] 96 p. PS3513.R744R3 1920

1217

Hansberry, Lorraine. A raisin in the sun; a drama in three acts. New York, Random House [1959] 142 p. illus. (A Random House play) PS3515.A515R3

1218

Heyward, Dorothy H. K., and DuBose Heyward. Mamba's daughters, a

play. Dramatized from the novel Mamba's daughters by Du Bose Heyward. New York, Farrar & Rinehart [c1939] 182 p. plates. PS3515.E97M3 1939

1219

Hughes, Langston. Five plays. Edited with an introduction by Webster Smalley. Bloomington, Indiana University Press [1963] 258 p. PS3515.U274A19 1963

Contents.—Mulatto.—Soul gone home.—Little Ham.—Simply heavenly.—Tambourines to glory.

1220

Jones, LeRoi. Dutchman and The slave, two plays. New York, Morrow, 1964. 88 p. [PS3519.O4545D8] [TR: PS3552.A583D8 Baraka, Imamu Amiri]

1221

Locke, Alain L., and Montgomery Gregory, eds. Plays of Negro life; a source-book of native American drama. Decorations and illustrations by Aaron Douglas. New York, Harper, 1927. 430 p. illus., plates. PS627.N4L6

"Bibliography of Negro drama": p. 424-430.

1222

Peters, Paul, and George Sklar. Stevedore, a play in three acts. New York, Covici, Friede [c1934] 123 p. PS3531.E826S7 1934

1223

Richardson, Willis, comp. Plays and pageants from the life of the Negro. Washington, Associated Publishers [c1930] 373 p. illus., plates. PS627.N4R5

Contents.—Plays: Sacrifice, by Thelma M. Duncan. Antar of Araby, by Maud Cuney-Hare. Ti Yette, by John Matheus. Graven images, by May Miller. Riding the goat, by May Miller. The black horseman, by Willis Richardson. The king's dilemma, by Willis Richardson. The house of sham, by Willis Richardson.—Pageants: Two races, by Inez M. Burke. Out of the dark, by Dorothy C. Guinn. The light of the women, by Frances Gunner. Ethiopia at the bar of justice, by Edward J. McCoo.

1224

Richardson, Willis, and May Miller, eds. Negro history in thirteen plays. Washington, Associated Publishers [c1935] 333 p. PS627.N4R47

1225

Sackler, Howard O. The great white hope. New York, Dial Press, 1968. 264 p. PS3537.A156G7

In 1908, Jack Johnson became the first Negro heavyweight champion of the world. This is an epic drama based on his life.

1226

Torrence, Frederic R. Granny Maumee, The rider of dreams, Simon the Cyrenian; plays for a Negro theater. New York, Macmillan, 1917. 111 p. PS3539.O63G7 1917

1227

Wright, Richard. Native son (the biography of a young American), a play in ten scenes by Paul Green and Richard Wright, from the novel by Richard Wright. A Mercury production by Orson Welles, presented by Orson Welles and John Houseman. New York, Harper [c1941] 148 p. front. PS3545.R815N25

Includes songs with music.