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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/