The Plays of Georgia Douglas Johnson: From the New Negro Renaissance to the Civil Rights Movement

by Stephens, Judith L.; Johnson, Georgia Douglas Camp

• ISBN13: 9780252073335
• ISBN10: 0252073339
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-12-30
• Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr

Summary

This volume collects twelve of Georgia Douglas Johnson's one-act plays, including two never-before-published scripts found in the Library of Congress. As an integral part of Washington, D.C.'s, thriving turn-of-the-century literary scene, Johnson hosted regular meetings with Harlem Renaissance writers and other artists, including Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, May Miller, and Jean Toomer, and was herself considered among the finest writers of the time. Johnson also worked for U.S. government agencies and actively supported women's and minorities' rights.As a leading authority on Johnson, Judith L. Stephens provides a brief overview of Johnson's career and significance as a playwright; sections on the creative environment in which she worked; her S Street Salon; The Saturday Nighters, and its significance to the New Negro Theatre; selected photographs; and a discussion of Johnson's genres, themes, and artistic techniques.

Author Biography

Judith Stephens is a professor of humanities and theater at the Pennsylvania State University, Schuylkill Campus

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
A Note on Terminology	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
Primitive Life Plays
Blue Blood	p. 63
Plumes	p. 74
Historical Plays
Frederick Douglass	p. 85
William and Ellen Craft	p. 94
Plays and Stories of Average Negro Life
Paupaulekejo	p. 107
Starting Point	p. 118
Lynching Plays
A Sunday Morning in the South (white church version)	p. 129
A Sunday Morning in the South (black church version)	p. 139
Safe	p. 154
Blue-Eyed Black Boy	p. 162
And Yet They Paused	p. 168
A Bill to Be Passed: Including Kill That Bill!	p. 177
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