Mulatto | Miscegenation on Broadway: Hughes’s Mulatto and Edward Sheldon’s The Nigger
In the following essay, Barksdale explores the many differences surrounding Hughes’s and Sheldon’s plays, despite their common theme of miscegenation.
On 4 December 1909, at Broadway’s New Theatre, the curtain went up on a new three-act play written by Edward Sheldon. Although it bore the somewhat inflammatory title The Nigger and dealt with the intriguingly controversial topic of racial miscegenation, the play was apparently well received by the playgoing public—so well received, indeed, that it was published in book form by Macmillan in 1910, with a reprinted edition following in 1915. In 1909 Broadway enjoyed a lively season, and the competition was vigorous and stimulating. The Nigger’s big competition was...
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