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Shakespearean Drama for Black Audience
August Wilson, the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author, is the most influential and successful African American playwright writing today. His 10-play cycle chronicles the history of the African American experience in each decade of the twentieth century, with his latest work, "King Hedley II," set in 1985 and telling the story of an ex-con in post-Reagan Pittsburgh trying to rebuild his life.
Praised by critics as a haunting and challenging tragedy of Shakespearean proportions, "King Hedley II" is the eighth work in Wilson's celebrated oeuvre. The play's central character, King Hedley, is a "petty thief" who will stop at nothing to achieve a better life. Wilson's portrayal of Hedley's struggles and aspirations provides a bracing humanism that has earned him widespread acclaim as "America's greatest living playwright."
In the words of Michael Kuchwara of the Associated Press, "King Hedley is a big play, filled with big emotions and big speeches. These aria-like monologues are rich in humor, heartbreak and the astonishing details that go into creating real people." Kuchwara further observes that Wilson's "melody here is the mournful sound of what might have been, a blues-tinged tale about a driven, almost demonic man."
Elysa Gardner of USA Today echoes this sentiment, highlighting Wilson's "gift for dialogue, which blends searing poetry with uncompromising realism," as a key factor in his status as the country's preeminent dramatist. Gardner asserts that "what makes Wilson America's greatest living playwright" is the way he provides "insight into the struggles and aspirations of all individuals."
With his latest Broadway production, Wilson has now chronicled the first and last decades of the twentieth century, a remarkable accomplishment in the annals of American theater. As Kuchwara notes, "it's been quite a journey" for the acclaimed playwright, and "King Hedley II" is poised to further cement his towering legacy.
product information:
| Attribute | Value | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| publisher | Theatre Communications Group (May 1, 2005) | ||||
| language | English | ||||
| paperback | 128 pages | ||||
| isbn_10 | 155936260X | ||||
| isbn_13 | 978-1559362603 | ||||
| item_weight | 2.31 pounds | ||||
| dimensions | 5.4 x 0.3 x 8.5 inches | ||||
| best_sellers_rank | #254,499 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #65 in Black & African American Dramas & Plays #942 in African American Demographic Studies (Books) | ||||
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