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12 de jun. de 2024 · Lorraine Hansberry Biography. Lorraine Hansberry was born at Provident Hospital on the South Side of Chicago on May 19, 1930. She was the youngest of Nannie Perry Hansberry and Carl Augustus Hansberry’s four children. Her father founded Lake Street Bank, one of the first banks for blacks in Chicago, and ran a successful real estate ...
7 de jun. de 2024 · A Raisin in the Sun is a drama in three acts by Lorraine Hansberry, first published and produced in 1959. The play’s title is taken from ‘Harlem,’ a poem by Langston Hughes. The play is a penetrating psychological study of a working-class Black family on the South Side of Chicago in the 1940s.
12 de jun. de 2024 · The two-year anniversary of Hansberry’s death is commemorated with a seven-hour radio documentary called Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words, produced by Nemiroff with recorded performances by 61 of America’s greatest actors.
23 de may. de 2024 · Lorraine Hansberry (19 May 1930–12 January 1965), at twenty-eight years old, became the first female African American playwright who had a drama produced on Broadway with A Raisin in the Sun (1959).
23 de may. de 2024 · Chapter 3, “Lorraine Hansberry: ‘ The Second Sex may well be the most important work of this century,’ ” offers a close reading of Lorraine Hansberry’s critical commentary on The Second Sex, highlighting several key themes, including her critique of the biographical imperative approach to Beauvoir and The Second Sex, as ...
12 de jun. de 2024 · Born on the South Side of Chicago, Lorraine Hansberry took a line from a Langston Hughes poem: “What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up, like a raisin in the sun?…” to title her play about the experience of an American family pursuing their dream of a better life.
23 de may. de 2024 · Lorraine Hansberry: The Life Behind A Raisin in the Sun. Written when she was just 28, Lorraine Hansberry’s landmark A Raisin in the Sun is listed by the National Theatre as one of the hundred most significant works of the twentieth century.
