“This book invites us to revise existing genealogies of black theater and offers us the provocative idea of classical theory of drama as a handmaiden for the theater of civil disobedience. Like the best ideas it is bold and original and, on reading, makes perfect sense." - Emily Greenwood, Professor of Classics, Yale University“Situating Aristotle's Poetics as a major intertext, Rankine demonstrates that perhaps the most radical form of classical reception is that which sets things in motion—both in the movements of actors on stage and in the conscience of those watching.” - Denise Eileen McCoskey, Associate Professor of Classics, Affiliate, Black World Studies, Miami University“…this book will be thought provoking and richly rewarding for specialists in classical and/or black literature.” - Choice“The reader is challenged to move beyond the moral constraints of Aristotlelian drama and adopt a consciousness that involves recognizing the interplay of various sociopolitical forces and how they operate simultaneously to create an environment where convention, rather than principle, is challenged.” - Chy Sprauve, Lehman College, Journal of African American Studies
