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PVAMU Kevin Powell Masterclass: Library Resources and Research : Reading List: Plays

Kevin Powell to serve as its second writer-in-residence of the Toni Morrison Writing Program.

Plays

Read a monologue from “Hamlet” by Hamlet (Online Copy)

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare circa 1599 and 1601

YouTube Video: Hamlet - Laurence Olivier - Shakespeare - 1948 - HD Restored - 4K

180,416 views May 9, 2021- Hamlet (1948) - Adapted and Directed by Laurence Olivier


Read a monologue from “MacBeth” by Lady MacBeth (Online Copy) 

Macbeth is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare circa 1606

YouTube Video: Macbeth- play

308,127 views Mar 30, 2020 http://www.bju.edu 

 

Read the first 20 pages of Ntozake Shange’s “For Colored Girls” (Online Copy- will need to sign-up) 

For Colored Girls is from Ntozake Shange's 1975 original choreopoem for Colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf. 

YouTube Video: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf (1982) Comedy, Drama, Romance

83,976 views Jul 26, 2017- Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. This film "For Colored Girls" is not for any personal financial profit or gain to TheeAdultSymphony Channel, but instead only for educational purposes and cultural research.

Print Copies available in the John B. Coleman Library Circulation Department (First Floor) on Reserve

 


Read the first  20 pages of August Wilson’s “Fences” (Online Copy)

Fences is a 1985 play by American playwright August Wilson. Set in the 1950s, it is the sixth in Wilson's ten-part "Pittsburgh Cycle"

YouTube Video: August Wilson's "Fences"

43,683 views Jan 15, 2021- E. Stanley Richardson and Rhonda Wilson star in this stage production at The Actors Warehouse, Gainesville, FL.

 

Print Copies available in the John B. Coleman Library Circulation Department (First Floor) on Reserve 

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