The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window (Masterplots II: African American Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Lorraine Hansberry
- First Published: 1965
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Protest drama
- Time of Work: The early 1960’s
- Setting: Greenwich Village, New York
- Principal Characters: Sidney Brustein, Iris Parodus Brustein, Gloria Parodus, Mavis Parodus Bryson, Alton Scales, David Ragin, Max, Wally O’Hara
- Genres: Domestic realism
- Subjects: African Americans
- Locales: New York, NY
The Play
The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, Lorraine Hansberry’s second Broadway play, is set in New York’s Greenwich Village in the early 1960’s. Although its action arises out of the early ferment of the 1960’s phase of the American Civil Rights movement, the play seems only indirectly connected with that movement. A Raisin in the Sun (1959), Hansberry’s first Broadway play, deals with lower-class African American life in Chicago after World War II and directly presents key African American issues of the period, such as the ways African Americans...
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