Accounts of the largely lost history of the African Grove Theatre ... favorite things is that these Black people were audacious enough to want to even approach Shakespeare,” says Guinea Bennett ...

William Henry Brown, a free Black American, organized a production of Shakespeare’s Richard III under his company, African Grove Theatre. At the same time, the leading producer of New York City ...

William Shakespeare’s famous tragedy “Othello ... Indigenous like Caliban, or Black African like Cleopatra. But what did Shakespeare have to say about race in plays such as “Hamlet ...

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or to provide a more lively interpretation of white theater by acknowledging the vibrancy of the black experience (in the words of the African Company's manager: “Say ya Shakespeare like ya want").