August Wilson: Three Plays

by August Wilson

Overview

This collection features Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, voted Best Play of 1984-85 by the New York Drama Critics' Circle, Fences, winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and Joe Turner's Come and Gone, voted Best Play of 1987-88 by the New York Drama Critics' Circle.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780822936664
Publisher:	University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date:	06/03/1991
Edition description:	1
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

Editorial Reviews

With the benefit of 20 years of hindsight, one can posit that the maiden performance of "Ma Rainey" inaugurated the August Wilson era.  As both an individual playwright and a hub of theatrical activity, he has defined his time in the way Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams, Neil Simon and Edward Albee defined the three preceding generations.”
—New York Times on Ma Rainey

“Few things in publishing can be called a coup. This is. . . . A handsome, must-have volume of August Wilson's first major plays."
—SRO

From the Publisher

These three plays (Ma Rainey's black bottom, Fences, and Joe Turner's come and gone)--published together for the first time, with a new introduction by the author--wind through three decades of the African-American experience. Each play has won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. Fences also won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for drama. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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