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Counter The Darker Face of the Earth: A Verse Play

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Dove, Rita
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1994
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A play in verse about a white woman who has a black child by a slave in pre-Civil War South Carolina. The author is a Pulitzer Prize winner and is the present U.S. poet laureate. This verse play, based on the story of Oedipus & placed within the context of slavery, is set on a plantation in antebellum South Carolina.
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Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus
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Story Line Press
Language:
English
Format:
Print book
Type:
Play
Topic:
African diaspora, Enslaved peoples, and Play
Rights - Use and Reproduction:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

2. The Darker Face of the Earth: A Verse Play

Creator / Contributor:
Dove, Rita
Date Created / Date Issued:
1994
Description:
A play in verse about a white woman who has a black child by a slave in pre-Civil War South Carolina. The author is a Pulitzer Prize winner and is the present U.S. poet laureate. This verse play, based on the story of Oedipus & placed within the context of slavery, is set on a plantation in antebellum South Carolina.
Work Based On:
Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus
Publisher:
Story Line Press
Language:
English
Format:
Print book
Type:
Play
Topic:
African diaspora, Enslaved peoples, and Play
Rights - Use and Reproduction:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/