{"id":33321,"date":"2022-08-08T11:28:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T15:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/?p=33321"},"modified":"2022-08-08T11:28:05","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T15:28:05","slug":"black-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/black-drama\/33321\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/08\/BlackDrama.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-33322 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/08\/BlackDrama-300x109.png\" alt=\"Posters and photographs of African American performers\" width=\"300\" height=\"109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/08\/BlackDrama-300x109.png 300w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/08\/BlackDrama-768x279.png 768w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/08\/BlackDrama-624x226.png 624w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/08\/BlackDrama.png 973w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Looking for digital copies of plays by Black authors? <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.mit.edu\/blackdrama\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Black Drama<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (Third Edition) contains more than 1,700 scripts from playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. It includes many rare and previously unpublished works by writers such as Langston Hughes, Ed Bullins, Willis Richardson, Amiri Baraka, Randolph Edmonds, and Zora Neale Hurston as well as contemporary works by figures such as Dominique Morisseau, August Wilson, Somalia Seaton, and Barbara Molette. Coverage begins in the mid-1800\u2019s and continues to the present.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for digital copies of plays by Black authors? Black Drama (Third Edition) contains more than 1,700 scripts from playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. It includes many rare and previously unpublished works by writers such as Langston Hughes, Ed Bullins, Willis Richardson, Amiri Baraka, Randolph Edmonds, and Zora Neale Hurston as well as contemporary works by figures such as Dominique Morisseau, August Wilson, Somalia Seaton, and Barbara Molette. Coverage begins in the mid-1800\u2019s and continues to the present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"subtitle":"New collection of digital playscripts","is_event":false,"calendar_url":"","calendar_id":"","calendar_image":"","pauthor":"","urgent":false,"notes":"","featuredListImg":false,"homeImg":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/08\/BlackDrama_111x206_acf_cropped.png","listImg":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/08\/BlackDrama_323x111_acf_cropped.png","homepage_post_title":"Black Drama: New collection of digital playscripts","featuredArticle":"false"},"categories":[233],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}