Thunder on the Stage: The Dramatic Vision of Richard Wright

by Bruce Allen Dick

Richard Wright's dramatic imagination guided the creation of his masterpieces Native Son and Black Boy and helped shape Wright's long-overlooked writing for theater and other performative mediums.

Drawing on decades of research and interviews with Wright's family and Wright scholars, Bruce Allen Dick uncovers the theatrical influence on Wright's oeuvre--from his 1930s boxing journalism to his unpublished one-acts on returning Black...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252045688
• ISBN13: 9780252045684
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 296 Pages