Those boundaries could be national and geographical, as in the case of Shakespeare’s history plays ... Black Man.” If Hamlet committed revenge, he’d no longer be quite as white.

In “An Octoroon,” the character BJJ laments the plight of being a Black ... in Shakespeare’s play. Parks’ play paints a picture of a fictionalized Sarah Baartman consumed by white society ...

This is because European culture is portrayed as the standard for high art and ... say Shakespeare creates a 'dark/light binary' which casts dark or black as negative and white or fair as positive.

Growing up, the Bard was for white kids. Now in his forties, our columnist—professor, novelist, Pulitzer Prize winner—reads his plays ... Shakespeare in high school? To have said, in effect ...

The 'disproportionate representation' of William Shakespeare has propagated 'white, able-bodied ... the contemporary performance of early modern plays'. But critics have accused the council ...

Shakespeare ... the Black influences in the retelling and reflected on her experience performing in “Macbeth in Stride,” explaining, “Yeah, a white man made this play, but he’s talking ...

The Great Hall of the Folger Shakespeare Library used ... Aldridge was the first Black actor to play Othello, after centuries of White actors using blackface. Nearby, a mirror sculpture by the ...

It’s a reason why Jesus, likely a brown historical figure, is depicted as white in western art and churches ... so we have a black female Shakespeare," she said.

Director Robert O'Hara ("Slave Play ... casting a Black woman in the role Shakespeare envisions as a hunchback, O'Hara conveys the character's outsider nature by having two white men portray ...

If you look at my bookshelves, the art on my walls ... Ijames’s “Fat Ham.” In the play, a Black, queer take on “Hamlet” in conversation with Shakespeare’s original text, Hamlet ...

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 ...