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    A Study Guide for David Feldshuh's "Miss Evers' Boys"
    A Study Guide for David Feldshuh's "Miss Evers' Boys"
    A Study Guide for David Feldshuh's "Miss Evers' Boys"
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    A Study Guide for David Feldshuh's "Miss Evers' Boys"

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    A Study Guide for David Feldshuh's "Miss Evers' Boys," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateAug 12, 2016
    ISBN9781535828680
    A Study Guide for David Feldshuh's "Miss Evers' Boys"

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      A Study Guide for David Feldshuh's "Miss Evers' Boys" - Gale

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      Miss Evers' Boys

      David Feldshuh

      1989

      Introduction

      Miss Evers' Boys is a play by American dramatist David Feldshuh. It was first produced by Center Stage in Baltimore, Maryland, on November 17, 1989. Over the next two years it was performed in Los Angeles, California; Atlanta, Georgia; and Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was also nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. The play is based on the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, an infamous episode in twentieth-century American history that took place between 1932 and 1972.

      The study was conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service in Tuskegee, Alabama, on 399 poor African American sharecroppers (tenant farmers) in Macon County, Alabama. The men all had syphilis and were told they were being given free government health care, although they were never told what disease they were suffering from. The men in fact received only very limited treatment for syphilis, which was then stopped altogether because the purpose of the study was to document the progress of the disease in African American men when it was untreated. The experiment was intended to continue until the men died. Even when penicillin became available in the 1940s and was known to be an effective treatment for syphilis, it was not made available to the men in the study.

      Miss Evers' Boys centers around the memories and reflections of the fictional character Eunice Evers, an African American nurse, as she struggles to deal with her long involvement in the deception. The victims of the study are personified in the fictional figures of four African American tenant farmers, ranging in age from nineteen to fifty-seven when the play begins. The play documents how mistakes and wrong judgments can be made with good intentions but lead, if uncorrected over the years, to an egregious violation of people's human rights. An edition of the play is currently available, published by Dramatists Play Service in 1995.

      Author Biography

      Feldshuh was born in New York City in 1944. He graduated from Dartmouth College with a degree in philosophy and trained as an actor at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He joined the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, where he remained for seven years first as an actor and then as a director. He also completed a doctorate degree in theater at the University of Minnesota. Feldshuh also studied to become a medical doctor and completed a residency in emergency medicine

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