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August Wilson: A Literary Companion by Mary Ellen Snodgrass 9780786419036
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £31.02Award-winning African-American playwright August Wilson created a cultural chronicle of black America through such works as Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, The Piano... -
August Wilson: A Research and Production Sourcebook by Yvonne Shafer 9780313292705
Booksplease Price: £95.49When Ma Rainey's Black Bottom opened in 1984, August Wilson was unknown in theatre. By 1988 he was described as the foremost dramatist of the American black experience and was the most acclaimed... -
The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson by Harry J. Elam 9780472031634
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.14Pulitzer-prizewinning playwright August Wilson, author of Fences, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, and The Piano Lesson, among other dramatic works, is one of the most well respected American playwrights... -
August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone by Ladrica Menson-Furr
Booksplease Price: £13.64"Herald Loomis, you shining! You shining like new money!" - Bynum WalkerAugust Wilson considered Joe Turner's Come and Gone (1984) to be his favourite play of the ten in his award-winning Pittsburgh... -
August Wilson's Fences: A Reference Guide by Sandra G. Shannon 9780313318801
Booksplease Price: £61.05Fences is the story of a responsible yet otherwise flawed black garbage collector in pre-Civil Rights America who, in August Wilson's hands, rises to the level of an epic hero. Deemed a generational... -
A Study Guide for August Wilson's Fences by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375399302
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375399302Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 46I -
A Study Guide for August Wilson's Radio Golf by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375386777
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375386777Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 46I -
A Study Guide for August Wilson's the Piano Lesson by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375399432
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375399432Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 50I -
After August: Blues, August Wilson, and American Drama by Patrick Maley 9780813943008
Booksplease Price: £27.47Critics have long suggested that August Wilson, who called blues "the best literature we have as black Americans," appropriated blues music for his plays. After August insists instead that Wilson's... -
A Study Guide for August Wilson's Seven Guitars by Cengage Learning Gale 9780270527742
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780270527742Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 54I -
A Song for August: The Inspiring Life of Playwright August Wilson by Sally Denmead 9781646144396
Booksplease Price: £14.20An ode to one of America's foremost Black playwrights, August Wilson, and a meditation on culture, erasure, and what ultimately drives an artist's desire to create. August Wilson grew up open to the... -
After August: Blues, August Wilson, and American Drama by Patrick Maley 9780813942995
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £45.36Critics have long suggested that August Wilson, who called blues "the best literature we have as black Americans," appropriated blues music for his plays. After August insists instead that Wilson's... -
A Study Guide for August Wilson's Two Trains Running by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375395410
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375395410Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 44I -
August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle: Critical Perspectives on the Plays Sandra G. Shannon 9780786478002
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59Providing a detailed study of American playwright August Wilson (1945-2005), this collection of new essays explores the development of the author's ethos across his twenty-five-year creative... -
Black Manhood in James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines, and August Wilson by Keith Clark
Booksplease Price: £20.12Challenging the standard portrayals of Black men in African American literature From Frederick Douglass to the present, the preoccupation of black writers with manhood and masculinity is a constant... -
A Study Guide for August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375383790
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375383790Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 38I -
A Study Guide for August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375382816
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375382816Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 54I -
Black Playwrights and Heightened Text: When Shakespeare Ain’t Enuf Jacqueline Springfield 9781032592992
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Black Playwrights and Heightened Text: When Shakespeare Ain't Enuf breaks down the misconception that heightened text sits only within a white tradition and brings the work of Black playwrights from... -
I Ain't Sorry for Nothin' I Done: August Wilson's Process of Playwriting by Joan Herrington 9780879102708
Booksplease Price: £13.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879102708Author Joan HerringtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint -
Lillian Hellman and August Wilson: Dramatizing a New American Identity: v. 37 by Margaret Booker 9780820461854
RRP: £47.20Booksplease Price: £39.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820461854Author Margaret BookerFormat HardbackPage Count 157Imprint -
African American Identity in the City in August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom by Patrick Ludwig 9783640425181
RRP: £24.90Booksplease Price: £20.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783640425181Author Patrick LudwigFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint -
Struggle for the Street: Social Networks and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Pittsburgh by Jessica D. Klanderud 9781469673714
RRP: £79.00Booksplease Price: £67.40Cities are nothing without the streets-the arteries through which goods, people, and ideas flow. Neighborhood by neighborhood, block by block, the city streets are where politics begins. In Struggle... -
Pass Over by Antoinette Nwandu 9780802147424
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802147424Author Antoinette NwanduFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint -
Struggle for the Street: Social Networks and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Pittsburgh by Jessica D. Klanderud 9781469673721
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Cities are nothing without the streets-the arteries through which goods, people, and ideas flow. Neighborhood by neighborhood, block by block, the city streets are where politics begins. In Struggle... -
Take You Wherever You Go by Kenny Leon
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.71Starting from humble beginnings under his grandmother's care, Leon takes us to unexpected places in his ascent to the top from the house off the dirt road without electricity in rural Florida to... -
Joy Ride: Show People and Their Shows by John Lahr 9780393246407
Booksplease Price: £23.06Joy Ride throws open the stage door and introduces readers to such makers of contemporary drama as Arthur Miller, Tony Kushner, Wallace Shawn, Harold Pinter, David Rabe, David Mamet, Mike Nichols,... -
Mister Paradise: And Other One-Act Plays by Tennessee Williams
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78The greatest playwright of the American South, Tennessee Williams used his talent throughout his life to create brief plays exploring many of the themes that dominated his best-known works. Here,... -
Black Theater, City Life: African American Art Institutions and Urban Cultural Ecologies by Macelle Mahala 9780810145146
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.04Macelle Mahala's rich study of contemporary African American theater institutions reveals how they reflect and shape the histories and cultural realities of their cities. Arguing that the community... -
The Afterlife of Malcolm X: An Outcast Turned Icon's Enduring Impact on America Mark Whitaker 9781668033302
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A New York Public Library and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2025 Published to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of his birth, the first major study of Malcolm X's influence in the sixty years... -
The Afterlife of Malcolm X: An Outcast Turned Icon's Enduring Impact on America Mark Whitaker 9781668033296
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.80Published to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of his birth, the first major study of Malcolm X's influence in the sixty years since his assassination, exploring his enduring impact on culture,... -
Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance by Mark Whitaker 9781501122422
Booksplease Price: £13.18A brilliant, lively account of the Black Renaissance that burst forth in Pittsburgh from the 1920s through the 1950s-"Smoketown will appeal to anybody interested in black history and anybody who... -
Anxious Masculinity in the Drama of Arthur Miller and Beyond: Salesmen, Sluggers, and Big Daddies by Claire Gleitman 9781350272972
Booksplease Price: £33.12Staunchly homosocial, vaguely or overtly misogynistic, anxiously homophobic-this study follows the male breadwinner as he is incarnated in Arthur Miller's most celebrated plays and as he resurfaces... -
Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1980s: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations by Sandra G. Shannon
Booksplease Price: £107.15The Decades of Modern American Playwriting series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips... -
Black is Beautiful: A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics Paul C. Taylor (Pennsylvania State University, USA) 9781405150637
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £20.06Black is Beautiful identifies and explores the most significant philosophical issues that emerge from the aesthetic dimensions of black life, providing a long-overdue synthesis and the first extended... -
Dramatic Apparitions and Theatrical Ghosts: The Staging of Illusion Across Time and Cultures Ann C Hall 9781350371736
Booksplease Price: £30.54Ghosts haunt the stages of world theatre, appearing in classical Greek drama through to the plays of 21st-century dramatists. Tracing the phenomenon across time and in different cultures, the... -
Theatre as Human Action: An Introduction to Theatre Arts by Thomas S. Hischak 9781538163436
Booksplease Price: £93.44Theatre as Human Action is the ideal textbook to introduce students to the various aspects of theatre, especially for those who may have little or no theatergoing experience. Seven diverse plays are... -
Theatre as Human Action: An Introduction to Theatre Arts by Thomas S. Hischak 9781538163443
Booksplease Price: £48.44Theatre as Human Action is the ideal textbook to introduce students to the various aspects of theatre, especially for those who may have little or no theatergoing experience. Seven diverse plays are... -
Black is Beautiful: A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics by Paul C. Taylor
RRP: £68.95Booksplease Price: £62.62Black is Beautiful identifies and explores the most significant philosophical issues that emerge from the aesthetic dimensions of black life, providing a long-overdue synthesis and the first extended... -
A History of Modern Drama, Volume II: 1960 - 2000 by David Krasner 9781405157582
RRP: £68.95Booksplease Price: £63.42A History of Modern Drama: Volume II explores a remarkable breadth of topics and analytical approaches to the dramatic works, authors, and transitional events and movements that shaped world drama... -
A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Modern Age by Jennifer Wallace
Booksplease Price: £95.94In this book leading scholars come together to provide a comprehensive, wide-ranging overview of tragedy in theatre and other media from 1920 to the present. The 20th century is often considered to...