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Just prior to his death in 2005, August Wilson, arguably the most important American playwright of the last quarter-century, completed an ambitious cycle of ten plays, each set in a different decade of the twentieth century. Known as the Twentieth-Century Cycle or the Pittsburgh Cycle, the... read more
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- King Hedley Ii
- Harmond Wilks
- Ester Tyler
- Floyd Barton
- Citizen Barlow
- Becker
- Elmore
- Buddy Bolden
- Youngblood
- Roosevelt Hicks
- Rorty
- Leroy Slater
- Black Mary
- Joe Turner
- Ma Rainey
- Booster
- Harry Elam
- Vera
- Solly
- Wylie
- Caesar Wilks
- Shealy
- Lazarus
- Garret Brown
- Ruby
- Tracy
- Tonya
- Turnbo
- Old Joe
- Raymond
- Shannon
- Herrington
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- Dewey: 812.54
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