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Black Playwrights and Heightened Text: When Shakespeare Ainât Enuf breaks down the misconception that heightened text sits only within a white tradition and brings the work of Black playwrights from across history to the forefront by highlighting the use of heightened dramatic text in their work.

Interrogating the use of linguistic techniques often seen in heightened text, such as: enjambment, assonance, and consonance, author Jacqueline Springfield looks at the ways in which these techniques allow the text itself to have a kind of permanence in audiencesâ minds and works to reinforce a characterâs objective within the play. The book presents examples of works from a plethora of Black playwrights, including Langston Hughes, Lorraine Hansberry, Amiri Baraka, August Wilson, Katori Hall, Marcus Gardley, Tarell Alvin McCraney, and many more, as well as providing the context in which theyâre writing. Theatre artists who read, teach, direct and perform the work of Black playw

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      Publisher Taylor & Francis
      Published 4 March 2025
      ISBN-13 9781032592992
      978-1032592992
      ISBN-10 1032592990
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      Book Synopsis

      Black Playwrights and Heightened Text: When Shakespeare Ainât Enuf breaks down the misconception that heightened text sits only within a white tradition and brings the work of Black playwrights from across history to the forefront by highlighting the use of heightened dramatic text in their work.

      Interrogating the use of linguistic techniques often seen in heightened text, such as: enjambment, assonance, and consonance, author Jacqueline Springfield looks at the ways in which these techniques allow the text itself to have a kind of permanence in audiencesâ minds and works to reinforce a characterâs objective within the play. The book presents examples of works from a plethora of Black playwrights, including Langston Hughes, Lorraine Hansberry, Amiri Baraka, August Wilson, Katori Hall, Marcus Gardley, Tarell Alvin McCraney, and many more, as well as providing the context in which theyâre writing. Theatre artists who read, teach, direct and perform the work of Black playw

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