Black Female Playwrights An Anthology of Plays before 1950 [Paperback]

Fine reading and a superb resource. Ms.

Highly recommended. Library Journal

Perkins has chosen the plays well, and her issue-oriented introduction places the women and their works in a literary and historical context. Choice

As well as being centered on the black experience, the plays in Black Female Playwrights are centered on the female experience. Voice Literary Supplement

Perkins anthology is valuable for a number of reasons... Perkins book (which includes a bibliography of plays and pageants by black women before 1950 as well as a selected bibliography of critical works) is a major help in providing access to [the world of black drama]. Theatre Journal

The need to acknowledge these works was the impetus behind this volume. Perkins has selected nineteen plays from seven writers who were among the major dramatizers of the black experience during this early period. As forerunners to the activist black theater of the 1950s and 1960s, these plays represent a critical stage in the development of black drama in the United States.

Acknowledgments
Introduction

Georgia Douglas Johnson
Plumes
A Sunday Morning in the South
Blue Blood
Blue-Eyed Black Boy

Mary P. Burrill
Aftermath
They That Sit in Darkness

Zora Neale Hurston
The First One
Color Struck

Eulalie Spence
Undertow
Fool's Errand
Her

May Miller
Stragglers in the Dust
Riding the Goat
Christophe's Daughters
Harriet Tubman

Marita Bonner
The Purple Flower
Exit: An Illusion

Shirley Graham
It's Morning
I Gotta Home

Plays & Pageants by Black Women before 1950
Selected Bibliography