The Color of Shakespeare
It wasn’t long ago that minstrel shows featuring white actors in blackface were all the rage in America. They were hokey, slapdash, and completely offensive — but some of them were based on the greatest plays in the English language. Richard Paul examines how Shakespeare’s plays collided with American race politics.
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