{"product_id":"a-raisin-in-the-sun-the-unfilmed-original-screenplay","title":"A Raisin in the Sun (The Unfilmed Original Screenplay)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of Black people's lives been seen on the stage,\" observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition presents the fully restored, uncut version of Hansberry's landmark work with an introduction by Robert Nemiroff.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of Black America—and changed American theater forever. The play's title comes from a line in Langston Hughes's poem \"Harlem,\" which warns that a dream deferred might \"dry up\/like a raisin in the sun.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The events of every passing year add resonance to A Raisin in the Sun,\" said The New York Times. \"It is as if history is conspiring to make the play a classic.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lorraine Hansberry, Robert Nemiroff","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53685732245717,"sku":"9780679755333","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0792\/1893\/3973\/files\/9780679755333.jpg?v=1776469610","url":"https:\/\/thecrookedshelfbooksbrews.com\/products\/a-raisin-in-the-sun-the-unfilmed-original-screenplay","provider":"The Crooked Shelf, Books \u0026 Brews","version":"1.0","type":"link"}