Black Dionysus: Greek Tragedy and African American Theatre

by Kevin J. Wetmore Jr.

Many playwrights, authors, poets and historians have used images, metaphors and references to and from Greek tragedy, myth and epic to describe the African experience in the New World. The complex relationship between ancient Greek tragedy and modern African American theatre is primarily rooted in America, where the connection between ancient Greece and ancient Africa is explored and debated the most. The different ways in which Greek tragedy has...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786415452
• ISBN13: 9780786415458
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher