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The tenplay collection was cited as a contender for the most American work, with each play set in a different decade of the 20th century, portraying AfricanAmerican experiences across a century.
I actually came up with ten plays. That would be August Wilson's Century Cycle.
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The tenplay collection was cited as a contender for the most American work, with each play set in a different decade of the 20th century, portraying AfricanAmerican experiences across a century.
I actually came up with ten plays. That would be August Wilson's Century Cycle.
In the Century Cycle, Wilson sets each of the ten plays in each of the ten decades of the 20th century among a group of very loosely related families in the Hill District in Pittsburgh.