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Marisol and Other Plays by Jose Rivera
Call Number: Print Books (PS3568.I8294 M37 1997 )
ISBN: 1559361360
Publication Date: 1997-04-01
Marisol, an apocalyptic urban fantasy which urges society to "wake up" and somehow find a way to recover the long-lost and much-needed compassion for our fellow man, as this is the only way to save our world.

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American Decades Primary Sources (1900-1999)
Includes full or excerpted primary sources representing the seminal issues, themes, movements and events from each decade.

American Culture in The 1980s by Graham Thompson
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 0748619100
Publication Date: 2007-03-13

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About the Author

Jose Rivera shares about his play

Jose Rivera Biography

Saenger, Diana. "Jose Rivera Important Voice in Contemporary Drama; Work that "Seeps Down to Your Mind and Stays there"." The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education 13, no. 14 (Apr 21, 2003): 22.
Rivera, José. "On Artistry." American Theatre 28, no. 6 (Jul, 2011): 10-11.
Simons, Tad. "Jose Rivera: we all think magically in our sleep." American Theatre July-Aug. 1993: 46+.

Literature Resource Center
Includes a biography of the playwright

Contemporary Latina/o Theater by Jon D. Rossini
Call Number: Online access
ISBN: 9780809328307
Publication Date: 2008-04-17
In Contemporary Latina/o Theater, Jon D. Rossini explores the complex relationship between theater and the creation of ethnicity in an unprecedented examination of six Latina/o playwrights and their works: Miguel Piñero, Luis Valdez, Guillermo Reyes, Octavio Solis, José Rivera, and Cherríe Moraga.

Books

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Playwrights Voice by David Savran (Editor); Edward Albee (Contribution by); Jon R. Baitz (Contribution by); Holly D. Hughes (Contribution by); Tony Kushner (Contribution by); Jose Rivera (Contribution by); Ntozake Shange (Contribution by); Nicky Silver (Contribution by); Anna
Call Number: Print Books (PS352 .P575 1999 )
ISBN: 1559361638
Publication Date: 1999-04-01
The State of Latino Theater in the United States by Luis A. Ramos-Garcia
Call Number: PN2270.H57 R36 2002
ISBN: 9780815338802
Publication Date: 2002-09-27
Labyrinth of Hybridities by Marc Maufort
Call Number: PS352 .M38 2010
ISBN: 9789052010335
Publication Date: 2010-08-06
See the chapter "Reconfigurations of Realism in Latina/o Theatre"
Creating the Self in the Contemporary American Theatre by Robert J. Andreach
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9780809321780
Publication Date: 1998-06-25
See the chapter "On the eve of the millennium."
Puerto Ricans in the United States by Maria E. Perez y Gonzalez
Call Number: E184.P85 P47 2000
ISBN: 9780313297489
Publication Date: 2000-08-30
Culture Wars by Mitchell Young (Editor)
Call Number: HN59.2 .C85 2008
ISBN: 9780737737561
Publication Date: 2007-12-15
The Theatre of the Absurd by Martin Esslin
Call Number: PN1861 .E8 2014
ISBN: 9781472577023
Publication Date: 2015-12-17
The 'Theatre of the Absurd' has become a familiar term to describe a group of radical European playwrights - writers such as Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, Jean Genet and Harold Pinter - whose dark, funny and humane dramas wrestled profoundly with the meaningless absurdity of the human condition.