Few 19th century Black actors are household names. Although Shakespeare’s five-act play was first performed in 1604, Aldridge was not cast until 1825. For more than 200 years, white men ...

Plague Mask Players has specialized in twists on Shakespeare, a popular but often ... was conceived as a black-and-white sitcom from the 1950s, a la The Honeymooners, complete with laugh track.

The result is a contemporary exegesis of Shakespeare’s portrayal of women through the lens of Black femininity, power and desire. Culture Sauce Critic Thom Geier writes, “White casts a bright ...

Smith’s own new volume, Black Shakespeare, includes another innovative ... If Hamlet committed revenge, he’d no longer be quite as white. That might seem a stretch until you look at the ...

Corey Hawkins spoke with Newsweek about filming his fight scenes with Denzel Washington in Joel Coen's adaptation of ... TV+ Shakespearean tragedy in black and white. A pair of star-crossed ...

Some academics say Shakespeare creates a 'dark/light binary' which casts dark or black as negative and white or fair as positive. The Globe has sought to address the more troubling aspects of ...

As a Black actor who has had the chance ... In a sweeping yet forensic 336 pages, “The Great White Bard” argues that “Shakespeare’s texts are a reservoir of what is known as race-making ...

That that was the only full Shakespeare play that I read for ... he wrote a whole damn essay decrying their union: “Black and white blood cannot be intermingled in marriage without a gross ...

She is the author of The Great White Bard ... of Pennsylvania removed a portrait of Shakespeare replacing it with a printed photo of Audre Lorde the Black Feminist poet and novelist in order ...

Certainly, neither Shakespeare nor Boucicault faced the ... That idea makes the relationships between Black men and white women in “Othello” and “Titus Andronicus” read quite differently.

Shakespeare’s work reveals social injustice “Titus Andronicus” featured the playwright’s first Black character, Aaron. In that play, written near the end of the 16th century, the white ...

impregnated Black woman, passed around from man to man, clown to clown — a figure at the heart of “Venus” who makes only a brief appearance in Shakespeare’s play. Parks’ play paints a picture of a ...