The Mountaintop (Modern Classics)

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Exactly one year ago, I stood in that crumbling pulpit in Riverside and shouted that this war would be our own violent undoing, freedom’s suicide . . . Well, I will inform you, there weren’t too many Amens that Sunday. But who is a man who does not speak his mind? He isn’t a man, but I’m a man.

The night before his assassination, King retires to room 306 within the now-famous Lorraine Motel after giving an acclaimed speech to an enormous church congregation. When a mysterious young maid visits him to deliver a cup of coffee, King is forced to confront his past and the way forward for his people.

Portraying rhetoric, hope and ideals of social change, The Mountaintop also explores being human within the face of inevitable death. The play is a dramatic feat of daring originality, historical narration and triumphant compassion.

This Up to date Classics edition of the play includes a foreword by Michael Eric Dyson and an introduction by Faedra Chatard Wood worker, Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Theatre, University of Maryland.

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