1. 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/
