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Description Author Bios Lorraine Hansberry wrote of Black consciousness before it was fashionable, but she bequeathed to all of us a legacy astounding in its richness and relevancy. Few writers, black or white, are more relevant to present-day America than Lorraine Hansberry. Here, for the first time, Caedmon has gathered many of her plays, interviews, and speeches into one unforgettable collection. A Raisin in the Sun: an emotionally lacerating landmark of modem American theatre. A full-cast production...

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FICTION: Lorraine Hansberry wrote of Black consciousness before it was fashionable, but she bequeathed to all of us a legacy astounding in its richness and relevancy. Few writers, black or white, are more relevant to present-day America than Lorraine Hansberry.

'My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's' Lady Windermere has a happy marriage - or, at least, that's what she believes until one of London society's gossips, the Duchess of Berwick, arrives with her daughter to voice her suspicions about an affair Lord Windermere appears to be having. It's not just the Duchess who has evidence, however. Windermere's private bank book shows that he's been giving large sums of money to a 'Mrs Erlynne' - on frequent occasions - and he himself...

Publisher: Vintage Books Publisher Year: 1973 Edition: First Edition Book Condition: Very Good Jacket Condition: Binding: Mass Market Paperback Publish Place: New York, New York Notes: First Edition. 370 pages. Fading to covers. Very light edge wear. Yellowing throughout.

In 1959, Lorraine Hansberry became the first black woman playwright to be produced on Broadway. Her play, A Raisin in the Sun -- based loosely on the experiences of her own family in Chicago -- was an overnight sensation with both black and white audiences. In the wake of its phenomenal success, Hansberry became a spokesperson for black Americans during the 1960s civil rights movement. Then in 1964, just before the Broadway opening of her second play, The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, Hansberry...

Description Raised on Chicago's South Side, Lorraine Hansberry, writer & civil rights activist, used this setting for her prize-winning play Raisin in the Sun.The story of the gifted playwright who was also a civil rights activist & a fighter for justice.-- 100+ page biographies of inspirational African Americans. BR-- Explores both the personal and professional lives of these exemplary men and women. show more show less

Indeed Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of black America--and changed American theater forever. The play's title comes from a line in Langston Hughes's poem "Harlem," which warns that a dream deferred might "dry up/like a raisin in the sun."

ISBN13: 9780679764151. ISBN10: 0679764151. by Lorraine Hansberry. Published by Random House, Inc.. Edition: (REV)95

When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically new representation of black life. "A play that changed American theater forever."--The New York Times.INTRODUCTION

This is a landmark volume of the epic, original film script written by Lorraine Hansberry, adapted from her stage play. But movie audiences did not know that nearly a third of her powerful screenplay had been cut. This edition restores all of these deletions and delivers the screenplay that is true to Hansberry's vision.

An insurance check can allow the Youngers to escape their frustrating life in a crowded Chicago apartment, but escape means different things to each family member.

In her first play, the now-classic A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry introduced the lives of ordinary African Americans into our national theatrical repertory. Now, Hansberry tells her own life story in an autobiography that rings with the voice of its creator. "Brilliantly alive."--The New York Times.

An African-American family is united in love and pride as they struggle to overcome poverty and harsh living conditions, in the award-winning 1959 play about an embattled Chicago family. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

Playwright Wendy Wasserstein is above all a social historian. Balancing drama and comedy to write about social class in Manhattan and about Jewish-American identity, she drew inspiration from Chekhov and the comedies of S. Behrman Moss Hart and Noel Coward. The ideas of Betty Friedan, Germaine Greer, Gloria Steinem and Susan Faludi also inform Wasserstein's work which chronicles the rise and the eventual collapse of both feminism and liberalism between the late 1960s and the earliest years of the...