Adrienne Kennedy: Collected Plays & Other Writings (LOA #372)
$70.82
- Hardcover
995 pages
- Release Date
17 October 2023
Summary
Adrienne Kennedy has been a force on the American stage since the premiere of her groundbreaking, Obie Award-winning Funnyhouse of a Negro in 1964. Politically engaged, formally daring, and making provocative use of material from contemporary history and popular culture, Kennedy’s haunting stage works dramatize and project interior realities that are often marked by disappointment and trauma, madness and terror. Her understanding of the inner lives of African American women expresses…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781598537512 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1598537512 |
| Author: | Adrienne Kennedy, Marc Robinson |
| Publisher: | The Library of America |
| Imprint: | The Library of America |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 995 |
| Release Date: | 17 October 2023 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 133mm x 207mm |
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Adrienne Kennedy
Adrienne Kennedy (b. 1931) is a three-time Obie-award winning playwright whose works have been widely performed and anthologized. A recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters award and the Guggenheim fellowship, among many other awards, she has been a visiting professor at Yale, Princeton, Brown, the University of California at Berkeley, and Harvard.
Marc Robinson is Professor of English, Theater and Performance Studies, and American Studies at Yale University. He is the author of numerous books, including The American Play: 1787-2000.
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