A Raisin in the Sun PDF By:Lorraine Hansberry Published on 2011-11-02 by Vintage |Never before, 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. Indeed Lorraine 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.| |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.| This Modern Library edition presents the fully restored, uncut version of Hansberry's landmark work with an introduction by R...