Bibliograph

Fences, a play by August Wilson ; introduction by Lloyd Richards

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Fences, a play by August Wilson ; introduction by Lloyd Richards

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

dramas

Main title

Fences

Oclc number

964931293

Responsibility statement

a play by August Wilson ; introduction by Lloyd Richards

Summary

The protagonist of Fences (part of Wilsons ten-part Pittsburgh Cycle plays), Troy Maxson, is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be to survive. Troy Maxson has gone through life in an America where to be proud and black is to face pressures that could crush a man, body and soul. But the 1950s are yielding to the new spirit of liberation in the 1960s, a spirit that is changing the world Troy Maxson has learned to deal with the only way he can, a spirit that is making him a stranger, angry and afraid, in a world he never knew and to a wife and son he understands less and less

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