LES BLANCS
The Collected Last Plays
“Hansberry, like the great Bernard Shaw, knew how to make provocative characters become real people on the stage … representing a variety of viewpoints on a subject of overwhelming importance.”
—New York Daily News
Les Blancs is a drama of Shakespearean grandeur set in the shifting moral terrain of late-colonial Africa, where her anguished hero must choose between two different kinds of loyalty and two fatally opposing codes of conduct. The Drinking Gourd traces the strangled interdependence of slaves, slave owners, and overseers. And What Use Are Flowers? is a whimsical yet deadly serious fantasy about the aftermath of a nuclear conflagration.
“Somewhere, past performance, staging and written speech, resides [the] brilliant anguished consciousness of Lorraine Hansberry.”
—The New York Times
Drama/African-American Studies
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