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    A Study Guide for Lynn Nottage 's "Fabulation; or the Re-Education of Undine"
    A Study Guide for Lynn Nottage 's "Fabulation; or the Re-Education of Undine"
    A Study Guide for Lynn Nottage 's "Fabulation; or the Re-Education of Undine"
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    A Study Guide for Lynn Nottage 's "Fabulation; or the Re-Education of Undine"

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    A Study Guide for Lynn Nottage 's "Fabulation; or the Re-Education of Undine," 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
    ISBN9781535823029
    A Study Guide for Lynn Nottage 's "Fabulation; or the Re-Education of Undine"

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      A Study Guide for Lynn Nottage 's "Fabulation; or the Re-Education of Undine" - Gale

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      Fabulation; or, The Re–Education of Undine

      Lynn Nottage

      2004

      Introduction

      Lynn Nottage's Fabulation; or, The Re-Education of Undine was published by Dramatists Play Service in 2005, the year after it was originally produced in New York City. It is a riches-to-rags story that follows the apparent decline of Undine from her high-profile job in Manhattan back to the projects where she grew up. Although she loses her status, wealth, and pride, she gains wisdom and self-knowledge that would have eluded her in her prior existence. Facing the people from her past, she must come to accept them and herself as she learns that one can never truly outrun the past.

      Although the characters are primarily African-American, and the play is often categorized as an African-American play, most of the content is universal. Nottage may be making a statement about the particular importance of African Americans honoring each other in all social strata and taking pride in their past, but the themes are applicable to many backgrounds and experiences. There is nothing, after all, about Undine that is only relevant to African Americans or even women. She is a person who finds herself in a situation faced by many people the world over and in all eras. The result is an accessible play about confronting uncomfortable personal truths.

      Author Biography

      Lynn Nottage was born in 1964 in New York City, and grew up in Brooklyn. As of 2007, she still lived in New York City. Even as a young girl, she enjoyed writing scripts in her personal journal. When she was a teenager, she attended the High School of Music and Art in New York, and then attended Brown University, from which she graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1986. She then went to the Yale School of Drama, where she completed her Master of Fine Arts degree in 1989. Although she worked as a press officer for Amnesty International after graduating, she later returned to writing. It was a short play entry that reignited her desire to write scripts; that play, Poof! won an award. Since then, most of Nottage's career has been in drama. She has worked as an award-winning playwright

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