“MASTER HAROLD” . . . and the Boys (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Athol Fugard
- First Published: 1982
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Political realism
- Time of Work: 1950
- Genres: Drama, Problem play, Psychological drama
- Subjects: 1950’s, Values, Africa or Africans, Parents and children, Tradition, 1940’s, Fathers, Ethics, South Africa or South Africans, Apartheid
- Locales: Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Places Discussed
*Port Elizabeth. City on the southern coast of South Africa. A strictly segregated city at the time of the play, Port Elizabeth is inhabited only by white families like the family of seventeen-year-old South African boy Harold (Hally), by a small merchant class of Indian origin, and by the black servants of these groups. Most black workers like Willie, who is employed in the tearoom owned by Hally’s parents, might have jobs in Port Elizabeth, but they come into the city by bus from black townships and neighborhoods including New Brighton, Kingwilliamstown,...
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