African Americans and Shakespeare: Partners in Search of Humanity
Barbara M. Dowdall
Published September 2009
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Endnotes
1 Errol Hill, Shakespeare in Sable, DVD.
2 Karen Sotiropoulos, Staging Race: Black Performers in turn of the Century America, 3.
African American entertainers after the Civil War were "marketing themselves as authentic 'darkies'…black
vaudevillians, male and female, blacked up…".
3 Harold Bloom, The Invention of the Human, xvii.
4 Ibid.
5 Errol Hill, Shakespeare in Sable, xviii.
6 Marjorie Garber, Shakespeare and Modern Culture, 66.
7 Errol Hill, Shakespeare in Sable, 20.
8 Marjorie Garber, Shakespeare and Modern Culture, 126.
9 Catherine M. s. Alexander and Stanley Wells, Shakespeare and Race, 45.
10 Stephen Greenblatt, Will in the World, 261.
11 James Earl Jones, Actors on Shakespeare: Othello, 19.
12 Marjorie Garber, Shakespeare and Modern Culture, 165.
13 Ibid, 136.
14 A.L. Rouse, William Shakespeare: A Biography, 229.
15 Glenda W. Gill, No Surrender! No Retreat!, 27.
16 Errol G. Hill and James V. Hatch, A History of African American Theater,
109.
17 Glenda E. Gill, No Surrender! No Retreat!, 21.
18 Errol Hill, Shakespeare in Sable, xix-xx.
19 Barbara Kaye Greenleaf, Forward March to Freedom, 25.
20 Allen Woll, Dictionary of the Black Theatre: Broadway, Off-Broadway, and
Selected Harlem Theatre, 146.
21 William Over, "New York's African Theatre: Shakespeare Reinterpreted" in Donald
Hedrick and Bryan Reynolds Shakespeare Without Class, 65-67.
22 Errol Hill, Shakespeare in Sable, 14.
23 Ibid, 19-20.
24 Ibid, 27.
25 Ibid, 64.
26 Ibid. 65.
27 Ibid.
28 Ibid, 67.
29 Jervis Anderson, A. Philip Randolph, 47.
30 Ibid, 55.
31 Ibid, 59.
32 Errol Hill, Shakespeare in Sable, 128.
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,barbara Mcdowell Dowdall
April 25, 2010 at 11:29 am
African Americans and Shakespeare: Partners in the Search for Humanity
A newly-published additional resource: Newstok, Scott L. and Ayanna Thompson, ed. Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Performance. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. A fascinating collection of essays on this topic going back to colonial times and including material on the Federal Theater, music, and film renderings. Langston Hughes said "You put me in Macbeth...and in everything but what's about me."
Barbara Mcdowell Dowdall
March 29, 2022 at 3:43 pm
Correction omission from Starter List
Denzel Washington of course for current Oscar-nominated film “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” but also Othello (senior year in college) Coriolanus 1979 Richard III 1990 Much Ado About Nothing. 1993 Julius Caesar. 2005
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