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Lectures in History

Playwright August Wilson & "Fences"

Lectures in History

C-SPAN

History, Politics, News

4.1696 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2019

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Tulane University professor John "Ray" Proctor teaches a class about playwright August Wilson, his contribution to African American theatre and his Pulitzer prize-winning play, [Fences]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Next on lectures in history, Tulane University professor John Ray Proctor teaches a class about playwright August Wilson, his contribution to African American theater, and his Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Fences.

1:13.1

Today we're going to look at August Wilson's Fences.

1:19.6

We're going to begin with a very brief discussion about who and what August Wilson was, his goal as a playwright.

1:21.9

I'm going to repeat some stuff that you have heard before from our in-class presentation

1:26.5

from Semhall, but there's going to be some stuff that I'm going to talk our in-class presentation from Semhall, but there's

1:28.6

going to be some stuff that I'm going to talk about in a little bit more depth than we talked

1:32.8

about last class. On Thursday, you guys are going to look at T-Bone and Weasel. I really hope

1:38.4

you all read that and prepare to do that. I'm going to give you your very quick pop quiz. The pop quiz for fences should be easy,

1:46.0

as we will be done discussing it, but we're going to take it so that you guys can get a grade for it,

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