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Adrienne Kennedy Reader

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ISBN-10: 0816636036

ISBN-13: 9780816636037

Edition: 2001

Authors: Adrienne Kennedy, Werner Sollors

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Introduction by Werner SollorsAdrienne Kennedy has been a force in American theatre since the early 1960s, influencing generations of playwrights with her hauntingly fragmentary lyrical dramas. Exploring the violence racism visits upon peopleOCOs lives, KennedyOCOs plays express poetic alienation, transcending the particulars of character and plot through ritualistic repetition and radical structural experimentation. Frequently produced, read, and taught, they continue to hold a significant place among the most exciting dramas of the past fifty years.This first comprehensive collection of her most important works traces the development of KennedyOCOs unique theatrical oeuvre from her…    
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List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 8/13/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 6.73" wide x 8.90" long x 0.77" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Introduction
Because of the King of France
Acknowledgments
Preface
Funnyhouse of a Negro
On the Writing of Funny'House of a Negro
The Owl Answers
A Lesson in Dead Language
A Rat's Mass
Dedicated to Malcolm X
A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White
Electra (Euripides)
Orestes (Euripides)
An Evening with Dead Essex
She Talks to Beethoven
Ohio State Murders
The Film Club (A Monologue by Suzanne Alexander)
Dramatic Circle
Letter to My Students on My Sixty-First Birthday by Suzanne Alexander
Motherhood 2000
Secret Paragraphs About My Brother
June and Jean in Concert (Concert of Their Lives)
A Letter to Flowers Dedicated to Dr. Joseph Kennedy
Sisters Etta and Ella (Excerpt from a Narrative)
Grendel and Grendel's Mother
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