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1 online resource (xv, 308 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Contents |
Introduction / Werner Sollors -- Because of the King of France -- Adrienne Kennedy in One Act. Funnyhouse of a Negro. On the Writing of Funnyhouse of a Negro. The Owl Answers. A Lesson in Dead Language. A Rat's Mass. Sun. A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White. Electra (Euripides). Orestes (Euripides) -- An Evening with Dead Essex -- The Alexander Plays. She Talks to Beethoven. Ohio State Murders. The Film Club (A Monologue by Suzanne Alexander). Dramatic Circle -- Letter to My Students on My Sixty-first Birthday by Suzanne Alexander -- Motherhood 2000 -- Secret Paragraphs about My Brother -- June and Jean in Concert (Concert of Their Lives) -- A Letter to Flowers -- Sisters Etta and Ella (excerpt from a narrative) -- Grendel and Grendel's Mother. |
| Summary |
Adrienne Kennedy has been a force in American theatre since the early 1960s, influencing generations of playwrights with her hauntingly fragmentary lyrical dramas. Exploring the violence racism visits upon people's lives, Kennedy's plays express poetic alienation, transcending the particulars of character and plot through ritualistic repetition and radical structural experimentation. The Adrienne Kennedy Reader is the first comprehensive collection of works by one of our greatest living playwrights. |
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Concurrent user level: 1 user |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Drama.
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African Americans. |
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Drama.
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Racially mixed people -- Drama.
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DRAMA -- American -- General. |
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Racially mixed people. |
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DRAMA -- American. |
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Electronic books.
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Drama.
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| Added Title |
Works. Selections. 2001 https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001031020
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kennedy, Adrienne. Selections. 2001. Adrienne Kennedy reader. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2001 (DLC) 2001001666 |
| ISBN |
0816691703 (electronic book) |
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9780816691708 (electronic book) |
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0816636028 (alkaline paper) |
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0816636036 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780816636020 |
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9780816636037 |
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