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1. The Hungry Woman
- Creator / Contributor:
- Moraga, Cherríe
- Date Created / Date Issued:
- 2001
- Description:
- "The Hungry Woman, grounded in the Medea legend and Mesoamerican mythology, reinvents the story of Aztlan in the "near future," visualizing a world in which the Chicano/a nation has won a living space but betrayed the principle of equality of the fighters for the revolution. Passionate, earthy, and tragic, full of heroism and villainy, the play calls on a new audience to deal with an imagined political reality."
- Work Based On:
- Euripides' Medea
- Publisher:
- West End Press
- Language:
- English and Español
- Format:
- Print book
- Type:
- Play
- Topic:
- Mexican American, LGBTQ, Aztec mythology, Tragedy, Women and death, and Play
- Rights - Use and Reproduction:
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
2. The Hungry Woman
- Creator / Contributor:
- Moraga, Cherríe
- Date Created / Date Issued:
- 2001
- Description:
- "The Hungry Woman, grounded in the Medea legend and Mesoamerican mythology, reinvents the story of Aztlan in the "near future," visualizing a world in which the Chicano/a nation has won a living space but betrayed the principle of equality of the fighters for the revolution. Passionate, earthy, and tragic, full of heroism and villainy, the play calls on a new audience to deal with an imagined political reality."
- Work Based On:
- Euripides' Medea
- Publisher:
- West End Press
- Language:
- English and Español
- Format:
- Print book
- Type:
- Play
- Topic:
- Mexican American, LGBTQ, Aztec mythology, Tragedy, Women and death, and Play
- Rights - Use and Reproduction:
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
3. 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/
4. 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/
5. Oedipus Tyrannus
- Creator / Contributor:
- Sophocles
- Additional Contributor(s):
- Meineck, Peter, translator and Woodruff, Paul, translator
- Alternative Title:
- Oedipus Rex
- Date Created / Date Issued:
- c. 430 BC
- Date Copyrighted:
- 2000
- Publisher:
- Hackett Publishing Company
- Language:
- English
- Format:
- Print book
- Type:
- Play
- Topic:
- Tragedy, Fathers and sons, and Play
- Rights - Use and Reproduction:
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/