Five Plays by Langston Hughes

No writer more effectively captured the spirit of Black life in America, especially in the urban North, than Langston Hughes. The world portrayed in his drama is quite different from that of any other writer, and its discovery is an entertaining, wonderful and enlightening experience. Five plays representing Hughes' dramatic writing over a period of forty years are here presented in paperback for the first time. The plays areTambourines to Glory,Soul Gone home,Little Ham,MulattoandSimply Heaven. Langston Hughes (1902-67), author of fiction, poetry, drama, history, biography, translation and children's books was a popular lecturer and a leading literary spokesman for Black Americans. Among his many honours was election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1961.