Langston Hughes
Though known primarily as a poet, Langston Hughes crafted well over 40 theatrical works. This book examines Hughes's stage pieces from his first published play, The Gold Piece (1921), through his post-radical wartime effort, For This We Fight (1943). Hughes's stage writing of this period includes such forms as the folk comedy, the protest drama, the historical play and the blues opera. McLaren concludes that the democratic argument is ultimately employed by Hughes to challenge segregation in...
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Examines Langston Hughes's many plays of the 1930s and early 1940s.
ForewordAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroductionCh. 1Folk Comedy in Collaboration: The Mule Bone Affair17Ch. 2Radical Drama and the Blak Community33Ch. 3The Tragic Mode: Mulatto59Ch. 4The Gilpin Players and the Karamu Comedies79Ch. 5The Karamu Tragedies101Ch. 6The Harlem Suitcase Theatre117Ch. 7Community Theatre, Black Iconography, and World War II141Conclusion165Afterword173Bibliography175Index181
