![]() It’s from Kim Felicia Hall, a professor of English who teaches Shakespeare at Barnard College. REBECCA SHEIR: Here’s an anecdote to consider as we start. We call this podcast episode “Freedom, hey-day! Hey-day, freedom!” It’s narrated by Rebecca Sheir. The other encompasses the long period of change stretching from the 1950s to today. One story begins in the 1820s, when freedom first came to the enslaved African Americans of New York. This episode-which we originally broadcast five years ago-focuses, in part, on two fascinating times in the long history of African American engagement with Shakespeare. In this podcast and the next, we take a look at this uniquely American intersection between Shakespeare and society… the choices made by African American actors and scholars who-over the years-have performed, taught, and studied Shakespeare. Like so much else surrounding American race relations, the African-American performance of Shakespeare is thoroughly bound up with the experiences of slavery, freedom, Jim Crow segregation, and the battle for equal rights. I’m Michael Witmore, the Folger’s director. Maybe even longer than you’d imagine.įrom the Folger Shakespeare Library, this is Shakespeare Unlimited. MICHAEL WITMORE: The African American experience with Shakespeare goes back a long ways. Previous: Shakespeare in Black and White | Next: Designing Shakespeare The title of this episode uses an alternate spelling (“heyday”) in quoting Caliban’s exclamation it is “high-day” in the Folger Digital Texts edition of The Tempest. Original music composed and arranged by Lenny Williams. We also had help from Britta Greene and Anne Marie Baldonado at Fresh Air with Terry Gross, who gave us their 1987 recording of August Wilson. Esther French and Ben Lauer are the web producers. We had help gathering material for Shakespeare Unlimited from Esther French. ![]() Edited by Gail Kern Paster and Esther Ferington. This podcast episode, “Freedom, Heyday! Heyday, Freedom!”, was originally February 11, 2015, and rebroadcast with an updated introduction on August 18, 2020. African Americans and Shakespeare (rebroadcast)įrom the Shakespeare Unlimited podcast.Listen on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Soundcloud, NPR One, or wherever you get your podcasts. This episode is narrated by Rebecca Sheir. Shane White is a professor of history at the University of Sydney in Australia.Francesca Royster is a professor of English at DePaul University.Bernth Lindfors is professor emeritus of history at the University of Texas.Caleen Sinnette Jennings is an actor, playwright, and professor of theater at American University in Washington, DC.Kim Hall is a professor of English at Barnard College.We have help from five scholars of Shakespeare, race, and American History: In this episode, which we originally broadcast in 2015, we explore two periods in the long history of African American engagement with Shakespeare. And like so much else surrounding American race relations, African American performance of Shakespeare is inextricably linked to the experiences of slavery, freedom, Jim Crow segregation, and the battle for equal rights. African American engagement with Shakespeare goes back a long way-maybe even farther than you’d imagine.
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