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Dove, Rita.

The darker face of the earth : a verse play in fourteen scenes - Brownsville, Or. : Story Line Press, 1994. - 140 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

A play in verse about a white woman who has a black child by a slave in pre-Civil War South Carolina. The author is a Pulitzer Prize winner and is the present U. S. poet laureate. This verse play, based on the story of Oedipus & placed within the context of slavery, is set on a plantation in antebellum South Carolina.

ISBN: 0934257744 9780934257749

LCCN: 93039433

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Women plantation owners--Drama.
African Americans--Drama.
Mothers and sons--Drama.
Plantation life--Drama.
Slaves--Drama.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
South Carolina--Drama.
7.150.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Historical drama.

LC Class. No.: PS3554.O884 / D68 1994

Dewey Class. No.: 812/.54