Examines the fiction of several modern black American women writers in a Marxist framework.

First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Between 1978 and 1985 the BBC televised the entire Shakespeare canon of thirty-seven plays, a remarkable technical and dramatic accomplishment. Susan Willis, an American scholar in Shakespeare studies and performance, observed the making of a number of these television plays. Here she presents not only a full-scale history and analysis of the BBC series but an unprecedented eyewitness account of the productions, from planning and rehearsal to taping and editing.

Willis shows how the technical elements of television distinguish these productions from stage and film, and she explains...