Les Blancs: the Collected Last Plays
The Drinking Gourd/what Use Are Flowers?
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · Print & ebook · December 13, 1994
Here are Lorraine Hansberry's last three plays--Les Blancs, The Drinking Gourd, and What Use Are Flowers?--representing the capstone of her achievement.
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- Who it’s for
- These final three plays offer a concentrated encounter with Lorraine Hansberry’s dramatic work.
- Genres
- African American Plays, American Plays, Plays by Women
- Published
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, December 13, 1994
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Here are Lorraine Hansberry's last three plays--Les Blancs, The Drinking Gourd, and What Use Are Flowers?--representing the capstone of her achievement. Includes a new preface by Jewell Gresham Nemiroff and a revised introduction by Margaret B. Wilkerson.
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These final three plays offer a concentrated encounter with Lorraine Hansberry’s dramatic work.
Come here for
- Three late plays gathered as a capstone to Hansberry’s work
- A collection with a new preface and revised introduction
Expect
- Three plays: Les Blancs, The Drinking Gourd, and What Use Are Flowers?
- Context from Jewell Gresham Nemiroff and Margaret B. Wilkerson
Where it sits
| African American Plays | 96% |
|---|---|
| American Plays | 34% |
| Plays by Women | 28% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- African American Plays
- Plays by Women
- African American Literary Collections
- Authors
- Lorraine Hansberry, Robert Nemiroff, Jewell Handy Gresham Nemiroff
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- December 13, 1994
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- African American Plays