Set in 1950’s Pittsburgh, Wilson’s drama exists as part of a ‘Century Cycle’ in which each of ten plays he wrote corresponds to and depicts characters in a different decade of the 20 th century. One was Porgy and Bess and the other was August Wilson’s Fences – a 1983 Broadway play starring James Earl Jones and Mary Alice as Troy and Rose Maxson, the patriarch and matriarch of a middle class American family seeking to establish an ethnic, national, and familial identity in the transitional period between Jim Crow’s deconstruction and the simultaneous acceleration of the Civil Rights movement.
It was 1989, and though I had convinced my parents to take us to Northridge cinema to see House Party, they also made sure I attended two classic stage productions at one of our local theater houses. Mom was and remains extremely well-read in classic literature, hailing Steinbeck as her favorite she enjoyed foreign cinema and took me (while in the womb) to an Ingmar Bergman film festival she could reference renowned plays and decided to middle-name me after Neil Simon and her record collection lined the living room perimeter containing everything from Funkadelic to Simon & Garfunkel, Temptations, Barbara Streisand, The Police, Rick James, etc…īut I think the most significant (though at the time not fully appreciated) exposure came when I was about 11 years old. New York: Plume, 2016.įind citation guides for additional books linked here.My mother and father always attempted to instill into me and my brothers an appreciation for culture. Wilson, A., Fences: A Play Plume: New York, 2016. Here are Fences citations for 14 popular citation styles including Turabian style, the American Medical Association (AMA) style, the Council of Science Editors (CSE) style, IEEE, and more. August Wilson, Fences: A Play (New York: Plume, 2016). Here are Fences citations for five popular citation styles: MLA, APA, Chicago (notes-bibliography), Chicago (author-date), and Harvard style. If you are looking for additional help, try the EasyBib citation generator. Fences is cited in 14 different citation styles, including MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard, APA, ACS, and many others. Learn how to create in-text citations and a full citation/reference/note for Fences by August Wilson using the examples below.
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