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Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Episode 19 in series. The podcast revisits the era when Jim Crow segregation was at its height, from a few years after the end of the Civil War to the 1940s and...
Item from the television arts programme. Alfred Alvarez interviews Paul Robeson, then appearing as Othello in Stratford. Robeson recalls playing the role in the past and puts strong emphasis on the racial...
Paul Edmondson talks to Debra Ann Byrd, artistic director of the Harlem Shakespeare Festival, about her one-woman theatrical memoir, Becoming Othello: A Black Girl’s Journey.
Professors Carol Chillington Rutter and Tony Howard with Adrian Lester discuss productions of Othello. The video briefly comment on the performances of Ira Aldridge, Paul Robeson, and Willard White, Rutter...
Television current affairs series. Includes an item (c 9min) in which Fran Morrison reports on London’s National Theatre production of Measure for Measure, directed by Michael Rudman, which is set in the...
Podcast. Barbara Bogaev interviews Dr. Freda Scott Giles (University of Georgia) about Black responses to the Bard. Topics covered include the African Company from the 1820s; the Harlem renaissance of the...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Episode 20 in series. The podcast" examines some of the many ways including, but not limited to, performance that black Americans have encountered, responded...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Othello is the story of a tragic murder and suicide involving a dark-skinned general and his aristocratic, white-skinned bride. Who should direct it? Who is...
A film version of Romeo and Juliet with an all-black cast. Hernando Caicedo and Jasmine Carmichael play the title roles.
Broadcast as part of a mixed variety radio programme, this appears to have been an all-male variety sketch based on Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. Written by Con West, this item is presented by John...
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