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Aug 20, 2015 · In August 2015, a meme claiming that a black woman named Amelia Bassano Lanyer was the true (uncredited) author of all of William Shakespeare's plays began circulating online: Although the ...
It is no longer acceptable to use the word ‘black’ in one of its original meanings – villainous, pejorative, demonic, evil, ill intentioned – the opposite of ‘white,’ meaning virtuous, good, holy, well intentioned.
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Mar 10, 2023 · Many of us have been taught that Othello is Shakespeare’s primary race play, because, of course, it focuses on a Black character. You might also recall that Shakespeare wrote a few other plays...
May 21, 2021 · Dadabhoy takes us back to Shakespeare’s London—a more diverse city than you might imagine—to look at racial ideologies reflected in two plays: George Peele’s The Battle of Alcazar and William Shakespeare’s Othello.
Feb 10, 2022 · Despite white supremacy and its attempts to carefully guard Shakespeare, Black people have continued to perform, read and comment on Shakespeare: W.E.B. Dubois, 19-century Black women’s reading groups, James Baldwin, Nikki Giovanni, Amiri Baraka, Toni Morrison, Djanet Sears and many more.
Feb 25, 2015 · Back in the US, black theater companies formed in the decades after the Civil War, and some put on Shakespeare. In the early to mid-20th century, black universities developed their own theater traditions, including Shakespeare, and in 1943, Paul Robeson triumphed on Broadway as Othello.
Feb 20, 2024 · The African Company Shakespeares of the early 1820s can be seen as part of a new solidarity and self-determination among the city’s communities of free and enslaved blacks, which might indeed help explain why it was thought necessary to use police power to contain and disrupt their performance.
William Shakespeare (c. 23 [a] April 1564 – 23 April 1616) [b] was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. [4][5][6] He is often called England's national poet and the " Bard of Avon " (or simply "the Bard").
Nov 11, 2015 · Why did Shakespeare write a domestic tragedy about jealousy, and make the husband a Moor? Is Othello’s race a canard, or is it the key to unlocking the play’s deeper meanings?
May 3, 2024 · Among Shakespeare scholars, those five works are known as his traditionally understood “race plays” and include characters who are Black like Othello, Jewish like Shylock, Indigenous like...
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