Learning on ScreenShakespeare and Blackface
- Synopsis
- Video recording of the the keynote address by Professor Ayanna Thompson on Shakespeare and the American minstrel tradition and productions in which actors wear dark make-up to play Othello to explore bacl mascilinity and how the play was written to be performed by white actors. It was delivered at the ‘Shakespeare and Social Justice: Scholarship and Performance in an Unequal World’ conference hosted by the Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa in Capetown.
- Language
- English
- Country
- South Africa
- Medium
- Video
- Notes
- The presentation has the alternate title, ‘Shakespeare and Unfreedom.'
- Subjects
- Shakespeare
Online availability
- URI
- https://youtu.be/pOxqewmnblg
- Delivery
- Streamed
Distributor
- Name
YouTube
- Web
- http://www.youtube.com External site opens in new window
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