{"product_id":"9781032592992-black-playwrights-and-heightened-text","title":"Black Playwrights and Heightened Text","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen Shakespeare Ain’t Enuf\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Playwrights and Heightened Text: When Shakespeare Ain’t Enuf\u003c\/i\u003e breaks down the misconception that heightened text sits only within a white tradition and brings the work of Black playwrights from across history to the forefront by highlighting the use of heightened dramatic text in their work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Playwrights and Heightened Text: When Shakespeare Ain’t Enuf\u003c\/i\u003e breaks down the misconception that heightened text sits only within a white tradition and brings the work of Black playwrights from across history to the forefront by highlighting the use of heightened dramatic text in their work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInterrogating the use of linguistic techniques often seen in heightened text, such as: enjambment, assonance, and consonance, author Jacqueline Springfield looks at the ways in which these techniques allow the text itself to have a kind of permanence in audiences’ minds and works to reinforce a character’s objective within the play. The book presents examples of works from a plethora of Black playwrights, including Langston Hughes, Lorraine Hansberry, Amiri Baraka, August Wilson, Katori Hall, Marcus Gardley, Tarell Alvin McCraney, and many more, as well as providing the context in which they’re writing. Theatre artists who read, teach, direct and perform the work of Black playwrights answer key questions in their own words in interviews with the author. Interviewees include Dominique Morisseau, Ron OJ Parson, Mfoniso Udofia, Zora Howard and many other theatre practitioners. Taking a chronological approach, the book examines the history of heightened text in the works of Black playwrights and re-defines the ways in which theatre students and scholars can understand the techniques of heightened texts outside of a purely Eurocentric and white perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIdeal for students of theatre history, acting, playwriting, and text analysis, as well as researchers of African American theatre.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55407942861174,"sku":"9781032592992","price":48.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_33621892.jpg?v=1759293093","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781032592992-black-playwrights-and-heightened-text","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}