Paul Green: Playwright of the Real South.(Book review)

Theatre History Studies | January 1, 2006| | Copyright

Paul Green: Playwright of the Real South. By John Herbert Roper. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003. xiii + 320 pp. $34.95 cloth.

A major study of Paul Green's life and work was too long overdue. Green--a Pulitzer Prize winner, leading figure in the vaunted Southern Literary Renaissance, pioneer in creating serious dramatic roles for African-American actors, collaborator with numerous influential artists (Kurt Weill, Jasper Deeter, and Orson Welles among them), and inventor of the popular form of outdoor historical pageant-play he called "symphonic ...

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