The Adrienne Kennedy Reader

by Adrienne Kennedy

Book Overview

An essential collection of works by one of our greatest living playwrights.

Introduction by Werner Sollors

Adrienne Kennedy has been a force in American theatre since the early 1960s, influencing generations of playwrights with her hauntingly fragmentary lyrical dramas. Exploring the violence racism visits upon people's lives, Kennedy's plays express poetic alienation, transcending the particulars of character...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816636036
• ISBN13: 9780816636037
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

a great talent

Adrienne Kennedy's plays are wonderful. She writes about her personal experiences, which therefore tend to provide some historical insight about the people, places, and events she writes about, so there is a sense of reliving a time and place. That connection to the past is juxtaposed with a unique writing style that seems ahead of its time.