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This is an excerpt from "Shakespeare in American LIfe," a documentary being produced with the Folger Shakespeare Library. At countless times in America, and for countless groups of citizens, the question has come up: Who "owns" Shakespeare? This is a particularly poignant question in the case of African-Americans. This story looks at minstrel show parodies of Shakespeare, color-blind casting of Shakespeare and the African-American experience with Shakespeare. RELATED WEBSITES -------------------------------------------- Program Director's Preview of "Shakespeare In American LIfe" White People Do Not Know How to Behave at Entertainments Designed for Ladies and Gentlemen of Colour (book about the African Grove theater company) "Stories of Freedom in Black New York" by Shane White Video of a conference on "The Legacy of Public Theater's Joe Papp" at Columbia University The Ground on Which I Stand (Dramatic Contexts) by August Wilson Maya Angelou says "Shakespeare was a black woman"
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Review of Shakespeare In Black and WhiteRichard Paul's story of African Americans and Shakespeare is interesting enough to hold the listener through it's quickly paced seven minutes. There's a great variety of voices from varying points of view, perhaps a tad too many, yet the overall effect is somewhat compelling, exploring the conflicting history of "classic" theatre and perceptions of race, both subjective and objective. Not really a black history piece, but one that might well accompany a program on literature or the performing arts. |
Broadcast History
Originally aired on PRI's Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen
Transcript
LEAD: The issues raised on ?Black.White? have the resonance they do for a lot of reasons. One is our country?s unusual history in the theater. For 75 years, whites played blacks on stage ? from Edwin Booth?s Othello in 1849 to Al Jolson in ?The Jazz Singer.? It was a common practice. No one said anything. Then the world changed and for the past 35 years, African-Americans have taken on traditionally white roles on stage. Now a backlash has started over that. Producer Richard Paul is working on documentary with the Folger Shakespeare Library that will look at Shakespeare in American Life. We have an excerpt from that program now that looks at the issue of whites playing blacks and blacks playing whites in Shakespeare.
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First thing you need to understand for context is this: In the mid-1800s, if you were a seamstress or a longshoreman, Shakespeare?s pl...
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Megan Sukys
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 11:02 PM | Permalink
Just kept listening
I hadn't heard about a lot of the history covered in this piece.