"MASTER HAROLD"...and the Boys (Play) Context & Analysis

"MASTER HAROLD"...and the Boys

鈥滿ASTER HAROLD鈥� 鈥� and the boys鈥� is Athol Fugard鈥檚 most biographical play: Fugard鈥檚 first name is Harold, his mother owned a tea room, and the relationship between Sam and Hally is based on the relationship he had with a Black man who worked for their family. Fugard sets the play in 1950, at the beginning of apartheid in South Africa, on the heels of the passage of the Population Registration Act and the Group Areas Act, which classified and separated South Africans by race This historical background gives context to Hally鈥檚 worry that someone will see Willie and Sam goofing around and his

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