Found 2 collections related to Drama -- Stage scripts

Historian and Marxist intellectual of many talents, Cyril Lionel Robert James was born in Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago, in 1901, and died in London, England, in 1989. James was prominent in the Pan-African and anticolonial movements of the mid-twentieth century; he is well known for historical studies of the Black struggle for independence. In the book The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution, generally regarded as his masterwork, he analyzes the socioeconomic roots and leading personalities of the Haitian revolution of 1791-1804, the first and only slave revolt to achieve political independence in world history. According to an interview, C.L.R. James had dramatized The Black Jacobins in 1936 in England, before he wrote the book, and Paul Robeson played the leading part in 1936. In 1967, when the colonial struggles for emancipation had developed, he rewrote it. The play was staged in Nigeria, in New York, on the BBC in London, and in Jamaica. Hand-corrected typescript, with additions and corrections by the author; with author's autograph. less

The Minstrel collection consists of various published minstrel books from an assortment of publishing series. All of the publishing series within the collection are incomplete. The majority of the collection comes from the De Witt's Ethiopian and Comic Drama publishing series, which was published by Robert M. De Witt and the De Witt Publishing House in New York City. Other series include the Ames' Series of Standard and Minor Drama, Baker's Darkey Plays, Denison's Black-Face Series, Fitzgerald Publishing Corporation, the Comic Drama, the Darkey and Comic Drama, and the Ethiopian Dram. The books are organized alphabetically by publishing series and title. It also consists of works written by Frank Dumont, G. W. H. Griffin, A. J. Leavitt, J. C. Stewart, and Charles White. less