(Paperback)

This is the first book-length study of black American women playwrights.

(Hardback)

This study succinctly views some works of nine black women playwrights, who flourished between 1916 and 1935, and explores--in some detail--some characteristics of selected plays of Alice Childress, Lorraine Hansberry, and Ntozake Shange.

(Paperback)

For those whose familiarity with black women playwrights is limited to the works of Lorraine Hansberry and Ntozake Shange, this collection of 15 plays written between 1925 and 1985 by eight authors will be a revelation. The bibliography that follows the plays provides selected lists of published plays, produced plays, and anthologies.

(Hardback)

For those whose familiarity with black women playwrights is limited to the works of Lorraine Hansberry and Ntozake Shange, this collection of 15 plays written between 1925 and 1985 by eight authors will be a revelation. The bibliography that follows the plays provides selected lists of published plays, produced plays, and anthologies.