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Ma Rainey's Black BottomThe protagonist in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is Ma Rainey herself. The musicians wait around until Ma Rainey, an African-American singer who is regarded as the "mother of the blues," arrives at...
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Ma Rainey's Black BottomNicknames are used in August Wilson’s play Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom for a number of possible reasons, including the following: to contribute to the play’s informal, colloquial tone to help...
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Ma Rainey's Black BottomMa Rainey’s Black Bottom was written by August Wilson. It was put on stage for the first time in 1984. The play is set in Chicago during the 1930s. The play is about a group of black musicians who...
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Ma Rainey's Black BottomLevee's story occurs when he was a child, and he witnessed the rape of his mother by a gang of white men. Levee tried to stop them, but he was badly injured when he was cut with a knife by one of...
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Ma Rainey's Black BottomHow is Wilson’s play Ma Rainey's Black Bottom tragic according to Aristotle’s definition of tragedy?Ma Rainey's Bottom, also known as The Tragedy of Levee Green conforms to the tenets proposed by Aristotle in "Theory of Tragedy", which he published in Poetics. Based on Levee's tragedy as the...