Contemporary Black British Playwrights: Margins to Mainstream
- ISBN-10
- 1137493100
- ISBN-13
- 9781137493101
- Category
- Performing Arts
- Pages
- 255
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-02-17
- Publisher
- Springer
- Author
- L. Goddard
Description
This book examines the socio-political and theatrical conditions that heralded the shift from the margins to the mainstream for black British Writers, through analysis of the social issues portrayed in plays by Kwame Kwei-Armah, debbie tucker green, Roy Williams, and Bola Agbaje.
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